13 Dec, 2016 @ 11:35
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British sex offender hiding out on Spanish farm is jailed

Leila Kassam
Leila Kassam
Leila Kassam
Leila Kassam

A SEX offender who fled to Spain has been jailed for three years.

Convicted for having unlawful sex with a 15-year-old girl, Leila Kassam has been sentenced to three years at Blackfriars Crown Court in London.

She was also given an additional one-year sentence for arranging and facilitating child sex offences.

Pleading guilty at her original trial in March, 32-year old Kassam fled to Spain in June where she hid out as a farmhand in Ibiza.

Turned in by the owner of the farm following Crimestoppers appeals, Kassam was extradited to the UK on December 9.

Her ex-boyfriend Paul Silverthorn, 36, is also wanted in connection to the crimes and remains at large.

He has been jailed to nine years in his absence.

Paul Silverton
Paul Silverthorn

Rob Horgan

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