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Brit. sentenced in Albania
By Reuters U.K.
Published: 11/19/2008

ALBANIA - An Albanian court found a Briton guilty of having sex with minors and sentenced him on Wednesday to 20 years in jail. Judge Gert Hoxha also ordered that John David Brown, a 56-year-old who protested his innocence, be expelled from Albania once he had served his term in a high-security jail.

"The court decided to declare the defendant John David Brown guilty of perpetrating the crime of sexual relations with minors and to sentence him to 20 years in jail," Hoxha said. Paedophilia is punishable in Albania with up to 25 years' jail, but Brown's sentence is the toughest actually imposed. It was the country's first child sex case involving a foreigner. Read more.

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