Paedophile caught in Thailand gets 30 years in UK
published : 26 Jul 2023 at 09:34
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Wassayos Ngamkham
A former children’s entertainer extradited from Thailand to the United Kingdom was jailed on Monday for 30 years for multiple sex offences involving children.
Paul McKee, 57, who is originally from Merseyside in the UK, was found and arrested in Thailand in September 2022 by the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) before being extradited to stand trial in Liverpool.
Police told the Bangkok Post that the National Crime Agency in the United Kingdom had worked closely with the CIB in arresting and securing McKee’s extradition.
McKee was found guilty in Liverpool Crown Court last month and jailed on Monday for 30 years with a further four years on extended licence.
The offences McKee committed were horrific and spanned a number of years and victims, Merseyside Police said.
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Vocabulary
- arrest: (of the police) taking someone to a police station because they are believed to have committed a crime - การจับกุม
- extradite: to officially send back someone who has been accused or found guilty of a crime to the country where the crime was committed for a trial - ส่งตัวกลับ
- extradition: sending someone accused of a crime back to the country where the crime was committed for trial or punishment - การส่งผู้ร้ายข้ามแดน
- guilty: having been decided by a court of law that you committed the crime your were accused of - มีความผิด
- horrific: so shocking that it upsets you - น่าขนลุก
- offence: a crime or illegal activity for which there is a punishment - การกระทำผิดกฎหมาย
- paedophile (noun): a person who is sexually attracted to children - ผู้ชอบร่วมเพศกับเด็ก
- secure (verb): to get or achieve something - ได้มา
- spanned: lasted throughout a period of time - กินเวลา
- trial: the process of examining a case in a court of law and deciding whether someone has or has not committed a crime - การพิจารณาคดี
