Thread: Wanted man Richard Burrows, 80, arrested at Heathrow after 27 years on the run

Apparently went by the name "Peter Smith".

The "British Community" apparently had a whip round to help him pay for his ticket.

One wonders how on earth he managed for funds? Surely, any pensions likely to have been accrued would not have been processed easily given his fugitive status since he was 53 years old and the adoption of aliases etc. Similarly, any savings held in bank accounts would have been difficult to access.
I assume he may have taught English but again documentation would have been difficult. Thai incompetence may have assisted but still, hanging on to 80…..
Fucking teflers, eh.

I wonder what his ThaiVisa/AseanNow id is?

Ah, just read the Phuket News account. The issue is, how did he obtain three renewals to his false British passport in the bogus identity of Peter Smith. He operated a company of sorts over his working life but funds ran out and he took to living in a shipping container towards the end.
And he was a fucking tefler.
They're bastards.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

And he was a fucking tefler.
They're bastards.

Of course he was.

He was on Phuket and down at heel for a long time.

The report said that in the past he had taught English for a limited time.

Well, he would have done, wouldn't he.

Doctored quotes, eh.

Classy.

Not doctored, just slipped, the quote block bigger than it needs to be. Allow me to fix

Yup, some dodgy Aussies too. Were they all TEFLrs too?

the chimp

A Brit


in Thailand.

yes willy. as you well know in the uk brit pedos need to queue up behind the believers (rochdale, rotherham, etc.etc.) so they jump the queue by going to thailand.

Tax, the Brit homegrown Catholic kiddy fuckers and anglo saxon ScoutmasterkidsR’Us have the field, the rest trail way, way behind.

no doubt hard to get actual figures on who is doing what to who, so just lets be guided by our prejudices shall we.

they are rarely wrong!

A former boarding school housemaster and scout leader has been found guilty of 97 offences, including dozens of historical child sexual abuse offences.

Richard Burrows spent 27 years on the run, living in what he described as "paradise", after fleeing the UK when he was due to appear in court in 1997.

He was arrested at Heathrow Airport on his return from Thailand on the eve of his 80th birthday last March.

Burrows told family he had come back to face his accusers and his maker - police say the truth was that he simply had run out of money.

He had previously admitted dozens of offences dating from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s.

The jury at Chester Crown Court heard that Burrows systematically abused boys with whom he came into contact.

Burrows had admitted 43 offences - and denied 54 others, which jurors convicted him of on Monday.

Mark Connor KC said: "He obtained positions of trust and responsibility which he breached to satisfy himself sexually with the youngsters."

Burrows had worked as a housemaster at a school for troubled teenagers in Cheshire in the 1960s. He was later involved with the scouts and amateur radio clubs in the Midlands.

James Harvey was 13 or 14 when he was befriended by Burrows through his involvement with the sea scouts. Burrows admitted indecently assaulting James in a caravan after visiting an RAF show.

James has waived his right to anonymity as a victim of a sexual offence.

He told Sky News: "The reason I'm doing this is to at least put a face to the real children who from the age of 10, 12, 13, put their trust in this man. I want his name to be trashed in the world for everybody that ever knew him and thought that he was okay.

"I think he's pathetic in the true sense of the word. His impulses and emotions have driven everything that he's done probably throughout the whole of his life and have left him looking like a shambling, despicable, evil human being that could casually over 60 years do this to children and still wake up in the morning and find a way of justifying it.

"I think he's pathetic, I think he's weak. There is nothing about this man that deserves anything other than loathing."

During his trial, Burrows admitted being a paedophile but denied the more serious allegations, describing them as "degrading and disgusting".

The court heard that Burrows believed his actions had done no harm to the children.

As he planned his return to the UK last year, he told his brother that "not all paedophiles are the same".

"I just think that's a disgusting comment to make," detective inspector Eli Atkinson of Cheshire Police told Sky News.

"What we see when we talk to the victims is that it absolutely did do harm. For the vast majority of them, that is their first sexual experience at the age of nine, ten, eleven, twelve, that affects a person for the rest of their life."

Burrows, who is originally from Sutton Coldfield, was first arrested in April 1997 and charged with child sexual offences. When he failed to appear at Chester Crown Court that December, a warrant was issued for his arrest.

Over the years, police made numerous televised appeals for help to track down Burrows on the BBC's Crimewatch programme. It prompted more accusers to come forward.

But Burrows had left the UK. He obtained a passport using the name Peter Leslie Smith having cloned the identity of an unwell acquaintance.

During a routine reappraisal of the case, police used facial recognition software to confirm that "Smith" was in fact Burrows, and that he was living openly in Thailand.

When they became aware of his plans to return to the UK, police allowed Burrows to travel on his fake passport so he could be arrested as he touched down.

Cheshire Police say they are not able to say whether Burrows might have offended during his time living abroad.

DI Atkinson said it is possible there are other victims who have not come forward.

"There may well be. There's a lot of reasons why people have really difficult decisions to make as to whether they come forward in cases like this.

"It would not surprise me if, given the length of time that he offended over and the level of offending, if there were more people out there who were victims of him."

James Harvey has questions over why Burrows was granted bail in 1997. He also wonders whether he could have done more to report him earlier.

"People listening to me now might think 'Oh, I'd behave differently' but we had no language, no framework, no understanding, no imagination that this same person had done to us, would go on and do something so much worse to somebody else.

"It is almost impossible for me to sit here and say I wish I had done that. There was no way that I could, literally. We lived in this kind of unbelievable ignorance and innocence that there were predators like this living in every single one of our institutions."

Burrows has now been convicted. Some of his accusers died before seeing him finally face justice.

Paedophile who spent 27 years on the run guilty of dozens of child sexual abuse offences | UK News | Sky News

I suspect he preyed on more Thai children than British children.

Originally Posted by taxexile

the chimp, yes willy. as you well know in the uk brit pedos need to queue up behind the believers (rochdale, rotherham, etc.etc.) so they jump the queue by going to thailand.

The 'queue'?

That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

You are just driven by your racist prejudice here, as on so many things.

Oh stop it cyrille. Nothing wrong with calling it for what it is.

I trust someone convicted of similar crimes today would have little or no chance to do something similar. 27 years in Thailand is a good run.

Originally Posted by cyrille

The 'queue'?

That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

You are just driven by your racist prejudice here, as on so many things.

Blimey. Cyrille just calling it for what it is. Maybe there's more to cybil than meats the eye ?

Originally Posted by BLD

Blimey. Cyrille just calling it for what it is. Maybe there's more to cybil than meats the eye ?

It's clear that tax's comment and my response to it have sailed way over your head.

And that your fucking plug ugly face is the strongest feature of your 'above neck' equipment.

Originally Posted by cyrille

It's clear that tax's comment and my response to it have sailed way over your head.

And that your fucking plug ugly face is the strongest feature of your 'above neck' equipment.

The problem with BLD is that he's impossible to insult as he's too thick to work it out. He's just sat there scratching his balls and grunting.

A prolific sex offender who spent almost 30 years ‘living in paradise’ has finally been jailed.
Richard Burrows appeared at Chester Crown Court on Wednesday 30 April where he was sentenced to a total of 46 years in prison and ordered to sign the sex offenders register for life.
The 81-year-old of HMP Altcourse, had earlier been found guilty of 54 offences following a trial at Chester Crown Court. These included indecent assault of boys, buggery, attempted buggery and indecency with a child.
He also pleaded guilty to a further 43 offences, including indecent assault of boys, making indecent images of children, possession of indecent images of children and four counts of possession of false identity documents with intent, at an earlier hearing.

Just a moment...

A prolific sex offender who spent almost 30 years ‘living in paradise’

This is the 'paradise' he was living in.

A can of horror.