Police arrest British paedophile found sharing a bed with an 8-year-old boy in Cambodian hostel

Less than a month after a British paedophile  was sent to jail for 10 years in Cambodia, a second Englishman  has been arrested in the country for allegedly molesting a young boy.

The arrest of 36-year-old Richard William  Fruin, from Gloucestershire, for allegedly abusing an eight-year-old boy follows the jailing earlier this month of paedophile David Fletcher, 67, from Norwich, who had been convicted of  raping a number of children living in a slum.

Now Fruin, who has a distasteful child  pornography record in the UK, has been charged with molesting  the eight-year-old after he was found sleeping with the youngster in a guest  house in the Cambodian capital, Phnom  Penh.

Richard William Fruin had been staying at the Boeung Meas guesthouse in the capital of Cambodia Richard William Fruin had been staying at the Boeung  Meas guesthouse in the capital of Cambodia

Police said Fruin, who fled to Cambodia after  serving a year in prison in Britain for producing child pornography, was found with the boy when police raided the Boeung Meas guesthouse.

He has already made one brief court  appearance this week and is expected to be brought before  a magistrate again early next month.

‘We are still investigating to determine  whether or not he had sex with the boy,’ Lieutenant Colonel Lao Lin, who heads the country’s  anti-human trafficking department, told the Cambodia  Daily.

Police have established that Fruin has been  working as an English teacher in Phnom Penh following  his recent arrival in the country.

Fruin has been charged with molesting the eight-year-old after he was found sleeping with the youngster in this guest house in Phnom PenhFruin has been charged with molesting the eight-year-old  after he was found sleeping with the youngster in this guest house in Phnom  Penh

 

His known record of paedophilia goes back to  2005 when he was charged at Gloucester Crown Court with 15 counts of producing child  pornography.

 

He was released on bail and fled the country  for seven years.

According to the anti-paedophile organisation  Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE) he travelled to  Africa and South East Asia before returning to the UK last year, where he was  re-arrested and sentenced to one year in  prison.

On his release, he flew to  Cambodia.

Cambodia was once the haunt of child molester Gary GlitterCambodia was once the haunt of child molester Gary  Glitter

‘He has a history of abuse and the police  have found many more (Cambodian) victims,’ Mr Khoem  Vando, deputy director of project management at APLE told The Cambodian Daily.

The mother of the young boy found with Fruin  on Sunday night claimed that following the Briton’s  arrest all three of her sons – including two aged 10 and 11 – told police they  had been abused by the  paedophile.

‘If police had not taken any action last  night, I don’t know what he would have done to my son,’  the woman told the paper.

She said that Fruin had been visiting her  shop in Phnom Penh for about a month and  had previously taken her two older sons to his guest house.

‘I had no idea that he intended to hurt my  children.’ she said.

Miss Pen Chantha, owner of the guesthouse  said Fruin had been staying there for about a month.

‘I was shocked when the police came to arrest  him,’ she said. ‘I never saw anything strange while he was staying at my  guesthouse.’

If convicted on a single charge of purchasing  a child for prostitution, Fruin could be sent to jail for up to five years.

Police said it was possible more charges  could follow.

Cambodia has for years been the haunt of  paedophiles from Britain and other European countries.

It was where notorious child molester Gary  Glitter lived before he fled to Vietnam as authorities  started moving in on him. He served prison time in Vietnam before being deported  to the UK.

Paedophile David Fletcher, 67, from Norwich, was sent to the notorious Prey Sar Prison in Cambodia after he was convicted of raping a number of children in a slum Paedophile David Fletcher, 67, from Norwich, was sent to  the notorious Prey Sar Prison in Cambodia after he was convicted of raping a  number of children a month before paedophile Richard William Fruin was arrested

When Fruin, from Stroud, appeared in court in  Gloucester last year it was revealed that among provocative photographs found at  his home were pictures of a 14-year-old boy called Luke Harrison.

A 21-year-old builder at the time of Fruin’s  court appearance in 2012, Mr Harrison plunged to his death from a Cornish cliff  top during a football tour earlier in the year.

Prosecutor Tim Hills told the court that in 2005, when Fruin was first arrested, he was associating with the young Mr Harrison and had taken him to a farmhouse in Worcester where indecent pictures of him were taken.

Mr Hills told the court that Fruin’s offences  came to light after a postman tried to deliver a parcel to his home, a package  that was in fact addressed to Luke Harrison.

The postman refused to hand the parcel over  to Fruin,who snatched it.

The postman reported Fruin for theft,  resulting in police searching his home and finding ‘evidence of drug  use.’

Police had expected to find further  incriminating drug evidence on Fruin’s computers, but instead discovered  pornographic films and pictures, most of them from the internet but there were  others of Mr Harrison in provocative poses.

Read more: DailyMail

 

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