Paedophile jailed for abusing poor children in Africa

A "DANGEROUS and devious" sex tourist who preyed on poor children in Africa was jailed for at least six years yesterday.

Alexander Kilpatrick, 56, a father of two who regarded himself as "out of control", was the first person to be jailed under new "sex tourism" legislation.

He repeatedly used the extensive goodwill built up by his son's voluntary work among the poor to conceal his "predatory" behaviour. He also used his mobile home to tour England looking for other vulnerable children.

London's Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court was told that Cumbrian-born Kilpatrick nearly always filmed himself abusing his victims.

He was caught and deported after a French tourist reported him handing out toys to children in Ghana.

Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to 17 charges between October 2004 and May last year. They included three rapes, three attempted rapes, administering a substance with intent and taking indecent photographs of children.