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Richard William Fruin was found guilty of committing indecent acts against the three brothers aged eight, 10 and 11
* Richard William Fruin, 36, from Gloucestershire, jailed in Phnom Penh

* Fruin was working as an English teacher at the Universal English School

* Fled to Cambodia after serving a year in prison in Britain for producing child pornography

* He was found guilty of committing indecent acts against three brothers

A notorious British paedophile with a history of child abuse in the UK and South East Asia has been sent to prison for two years in Cambodia for sexually assaulting three young boys.

Richard William Fruin, 36, from Gloucestershire was found guilty by Judge Kim Rathnarin of committing indecent acts against the three brothers aged eight, 10 and 11.

Along with his prison sentence, he was fined £600 and ordered to pay £1,500 to the victims' family.

Fruin was working as an English teacher at the Universal English School in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh when he was arrested with one of the boys at a guesthouse in the city.

Anti-human-trafficking police burst into the Boeung Meas guest house where they found Fruin in bed with the eight year old - but he claimed the child was there as a young friend and that he had not molested him.

Fruin will now join in prison another Briton, 67-year-old David Fletcher, from Norwich, who has been convicted of raping a number of children who were living in a slum.

Fruin was arrested in the UK in 2005 and charged with 15 counts of producing indecent images of children, but skipped bail and fled the country.

According to Action Pour Les Enfants, an anti-paedophile organisation, while on the run Fruin travelled to Africa and then to South East Asia before returning to Britain in 2012.

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Richard William Fruin had been staying at the Boeung Meas guesthouse in the capital of Cambodia

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Fruin has been charged with molesting the eight-year-old after he was found sleeping with the youngster in this guest house in Phnom Penh
On his return he was re-arrested and sentenced to a year in prison, on completion of which he flew to Cambodia and immediately started work as a teacher.

Mr Koem Vando, deputy director at the anti-paedophile organisation, said: 'Fruin has a history of abuse and the police have found many more Cambodian victims.'The mother of the boy found with Fruin claimed after the Briton's arrest that all three of her sons told police they had been sexually abused by him.

According to the mother, Fruin had been visiting her roadside shop in Phnom Penh for about a month and had previously taken her two older boys to the guest house where he was staying.

She said she had no idea that he had evil intent with her sons.

Miss Pen Chantha, the guesthouse owner, said she was shocked when police raided the room and arrested Fruin while he was in bed with the boy.

Cambodia has been the haunt for paedophiles from around the world, among them child molester Gary Glitter, who lived there for a time before he fled to Vietnam as authorities started closing in on him.

He served time in a Vietnamese prison for molesting children before being deported to Britain - a fate that awaits Fruin on his eventual release from jail.

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Paedophile David Fletcher, 67, from Norwich, was sent to the notorious Prey Sar Prison in Cambodia after he was convicted of raping a number of children a month before paedophile Richard William Fruin was arrested