a week's crop of English elite's pedophiles Child porn arrest judge retires A senior Crown Court judge who was arrested over child pornography allegations is to retire early on grounds of ill health on Wednesday. David Selwood, who is the resident judge at Portsmouth Crown Court, was arrested in April as part of a national paedophile investigation. He was interviewed by detectives over allegations of possessing indecent images of children. He was released on police bail pending further inquiries. A spokesman for the Department of Constitutional Affairs said that Judge Selwood would be entitled to a full pension. The spokesman said that he was due to retire on 27 June when he reached the age of 70 but was retiring early because of ill health. "The judge is innocent until proved guilty and therefore, like any other person, is entitled to his full pension upon retirement", the spokesman said. Last Updated: Tuesday, 1 June, 2004, 19:39 GMT 20:39 UK ------------------------------ Paedophile held post as police surgeon Robert Wells, 52, was jailed for 15 years after being found guilty of nine of the 11 charges he faced, including raping an 11-year-old girl twice and sexually assaulting her three times. Passing sentence yesterday, Judge Keith Cutler said Wells was a dangerous sex offender who used his status and wealth to gain the trust of his victims' parents, and that his behaviour cast a shadow over the entire medical profession. Wells, who denied all the offences, also filmed himself attacking another 11-year-old girl as she slept after giving the victim and her five-year-old sister Angel Delight dessert laced with tranquillisers. In 1995, Wells was cleared of attacking an eight-year-old girl and a girl of 15 in Brighton when two separate trials at Lewes crown court collapsed following legal arguments. The General Medical Council decided to take no action. The offences took place in 2002 and 2003. But detectives believe Wells may have abused many more victims in his 27 years as a doctor and appealed for them to come forward. Rosie Cowan, crime correspondent Wednesday June 9, 2004 The Guardian ------------------------------ A former school director who was jailed in Cambodia for child pornography offences was today put behind bars again for 15 years for a string of further sex crimes against young girls. John Keeler, 59, was convicted of debauchery in the south-east Asian nation in November 2000 after being found guilty of making indecent videos of girls as young as eight years old after bribing them with sweets. At the end of the three-year sentence he was deported and barred from returning to Cambodia. But Keeler, a divorcee and father who lived in the Somerset area, was then arrested and charged in the UK for sex offences against young girls. Last week he was convicted at Taunton Crown Court of 19 counts of indecent assault and two of indecency with a child. The charges related to three girls aged under 16 and took place from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s. Keeler fled the UK to abuse children in Cambodia after police inquiries into complaints relating to the current case. There he had been the director of an English language school in the capital Phnom Penh before being arrested in 2000. Thu 27 May 2004 http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2984628 Wednesday, 9th June 2004 ---------------------------------------------- FURTHER REFERENCES GO - "search perceptions" - in SEARCH-ENGINE file-ID www.perceptions.couk.com/041june.txt