Britons jailed for child abuse
Two Britons were starting lengthy jail sentences on Tuesday after they were convicted of abusing children at an orphanage in Albania.
Judges in Tirana jailed social therapy nurse Dino Christodoulou, 45, from Blackburn, Lancashire, for 20 years and Robin Arnold, 56, a salesman from Cromer, Norfolk, for 15 years and six months.
Both men worked as caretakers at the His Children Orphanage in the Albanian capital.
They had denied "sexual or homosexual relations with minors" on four children between 2003 and 2005.
One seven-year-old boy was said to have wept as he gave evidence via videolink that both men had abused him systematically when he was aged four.
In evidence, Christodoulou, who quit his job at Queen's Park Hospital in Blackburn on a mission "to help the needy in eastern Europe" told the court that the allegations were "fantasy".
A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "We can confirm that two Britons were jailed for 20 years and 15 years and six months.
"They are being provided with consular assistance."
The court ordered that both men be deported after completing their sentences.
In November 2008 David Brown, 58, of Edinburgh - the founder of the orphanage - was jailed for 20 years for sexually abusing the children. He was arrested during a police raid in May 2006 and the orphanage was subsequently closed.