VICAR HELD AS POLICE PROBE WEDDING CON
Metro
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Held: Alex Brown A vicar has been arrested on suspicion of organising
180 sham weddings for illegal eastern Europe immigrants.
Father Alex Brown – a popular figure in his parish in St Leonards,
East Sussex, for nearly 20 years – was detained in a dawn raid on
his rectory home.
A 32-year-old Ukrainian man, a Latvian woman, 27 – believed to be
one of the brides – and an Armenian man of 36 were also held.
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