Man who befriended UK families jailed after failing to reveal rape conviction

Robin Arnold, 71, breached a prevention order when he kept quiet about offence involving orphaned boy in Albania

A 71-year-old man convicted of raping an orphaned boy in Albania has been jailed in the UK for befriending families and children without telling them of his past.

Robin Arnold brought the children, all from an immigrant African community in Carlisle, Cumbria, gifts and they called him “Uncle Rob”, a court heard on Tuesday.