Former public school teacher and charity boss Simon Harris from Leominster, Herefordshire, has been jailed at Birmingham Crown Court for 17 years and four months after abusing vulnerable Kenyan street children.
A former teacher from Herefordshire has been sentenced to 17 years and four months in prison after being found guilty of abusing young boys in Kenya.
In December, 55-year-old Simon Harris, from Pudleston near Leominster, was convicted of indecent and sexual assault on youngsters, and possessing indecent images of children.
Jailing Harris, the judge told the University of Southampton classics graduate he would serve half his sentence on licence and also handed him a life-long sexual offences prevention order.
Nancy Cole reports on the background to the case:
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