A Czech man studying at a Brighton language school was sent to prison for two and a half years by Lewes Court Court on Friday 2 May for possessing indecent images of children and other similar offences.
Zdenek Junek,31, from Prague was caught in Brighton’s Old Steine filming children, and when his room was searched in his shocked host family’s house illegal photos were found on his laptop.
It later transpired that the language schcool, EF, carried out Criminal Record Checks on the host family, but not on the students being placed with them. Junek had previous convictions from a court in the Czech Republic for child sex offences.
One Kemptown landlord, who lets regularly to overseas’ students said;
“It is a mistake for a homeowner to regard a complete stranger as one of the family particularly when they have neither language nor culture in common.
“Your home has really become a one guest baby hotel. The student is a paying customer and not a convenient, free baby sitter. Host families with their own young children should make adequate child care arrangements, and if anxious ask the languages schools only for female students.”
Editorial Comment:
Whilst many will feel outrage at this flagrant abuse of England’s hospitality, sex offenders of whatever nationality are usually accomplished liars and skilled in covering their tracks. However our Government should be doing more to protect us.
It was a disgrace that the civil servants running the Home Office allowed commercial language schools to issue visa to overseas students. Of course they are not going to check out their customers any further than their ability to pay.
Sharing the blame are the civil servants who negotiated the open door EU treaties and failing insist on adequate safeguards concerning foreign criminals.
Modern passports and National ID cards all have electronic bar codes. These could easily contain an individual’s criminal past and any caught should be deported and made to stay at home.
If English football hooligans can be prevented from travelling to overseas’ away games then foreign sex criminals must be prevented from coming here in the first place.
That would certainly help protect us, yet why haven’t HM’s civil servants already done this for us?
Are they too busy spending our taxes on their inflation proof pensions?
