Brit Jailed In Cambodia For Child Sex Abuse

Brit Jailed In Cambodia For Child Sex Abuse

A British man has been sentenced to 12 years in a Cambodian prison after being found guilty of sexually abusing three girls.

Police say 51-year-old Michael Julian Leach was arrested in September 2010 at a guesthouse near the capital, Phnom Penh.

He was found to be living with three girls aged between 10 and 15.

Leach has also been ordered to pay 12 million riel (£1,800) to one of the victims.

Compensation had already been paid to the other two.

Cambodia has targeted sex offenders in recent years but it remains a magnet for paedophiles because of poverty and poor law enforcement.