Author: Patrick Barkham
Author: Patrick Barkham Writes for: Guardian News feed: Web links: Author ranking: 388 Number of articles found: 6 |
Vicar convicted of conducting hundreds of fake weddings at local parish church
Source: Guardian - Date: 6:55 PM 29th Jul 2010
The brides' outfits were borrowed, the bouquets garage-bought. Happy couples beamed for the camera, then minutes later went their separate ways. It was the same scene, week after week. Little did passersby suspect they were witnessing not the joyful union of two people in love, . . . .
Vicar convicted over hundreds of fake marriages at East Sussex parish church
Source: Guardian - Date: 3:32 PM 29th Jul 2010
A vicar has been convicted of conducting hundreds of fake marriage ceremonies at his East Sussex church to enable illegal African immigrants to gain residency in Britain. The Rev Alex Brown, 61, presided over 360 sham marriages where penniless East Europeans, with rights to . . . .
Priest accused of targeting immigrants in wedding fraud scheme
Source: Guardian - Date: 5:30 PM 10th Jun 2010
A vicar allegedly presided over hundreds of sham marriages in a "massive and cynical scheme" to exploit vulnerable people and enable illegal immigrants to stay in Britain, a court heard today. Rev Alexander Brown married 383 couples in the four years to July 2009 at the Church . . . .
The life and death of a paedophile
Source: Guardian - Date: 7:00 AM 7th Apr 2010
Gordon Boon and (left) his killer, Royston Jackson Photograph: Eastern Daily Press A passing couple stumbled upon the body when they pulled their car over to check a discarded tyre dumped in a remote area of rural Norfolk. Gordon Boon's body had been stripped of its shoes, . . . .
How I fought to survive Guantánamo
Source: Guardian - Date: 12:05 AM 21st Jan 2010
Omar Deghayes: 'I gave them a really hard time.' Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/REUTERS It is not hot stabbing pain that Omar Deghayes remembers from the day a Guantánamo guard blinded him, but the cool senÂsation of fingers being stabbed deep into his eyeballs. He had . . . .
Source: Guardian - Date: 12:05 AM 16th Dec 2009
Snow covers tree branches in front of the Houses of Parliament in central London in February 2009. Photograph: TOBY MELVILLE/REUTERS The week the crash went nuclear Larry Elliott, 16 September 2008 It was Black Monday. Banks going bust. Stock markets in turmoil. A . . . .
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