Ex-China expat Neil Robinson, who made headlines last spring, has been convicted to twelve years in a UK prison for sexually assaulting a girl under the age of 13, making an indecent video of a child, and possessing child pornography.
The 47-year-old Briton turned himself in to UK consular officials in Beijing last April after his appearance on BBC’s “Crimewatch” drew attention to the former international school teacher.
The Beijinger: Robinson was convicted of crimes that occurred in 1999 to 2002 in the UK. Surrey Police say he fled the UK in 2002 and for much of that period he was living in Beijing, as a teacher at several area international schools.
To date there is no evidence that Robinson committed any crimes while in Beijng.
In an announcement on the Surrey (UK) Police website, Detective Inspector Becky Molyneux, from the Staines Public Protection Unit, was quoted as saying: “Robinson is a highly dangerous sexual predator who put his vulnerable young victims through what must have been horrendous ordeals and then spent the next ten years doing everything he could to escape punishment for those horrific crimes.”
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After his time behind bars, Robinson will remain on the sex offender registry for life.
Neil Robinson from his Beijing days, at an international school prom held at Solana Mall in 2011. Source TBJ
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