A child rapist who "attacked" jailed vulnerable Kenyans

A man convicted of badually abusing two girls in Kenya was jailed for 18 years and six months.

Keith Morris, 72, of Hull, used his high status among villagers in Kilifi County to care for girls.

He also bought them meals and let them stay in hotel rooms with him, tells Leeds Crown Court.

Morris received a Sexual Prejudice Prevention Order and was prohibited from having unsupervised contact with children. He was convicted of four counts of rape, four counts of badault by penetration, two charges of badual badault and two counts of perversion of the course of justice

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The court heard how Morris, a retired locksmith, has repeatedly visited Kenya on vacation for a period of about 20 years, and was considered a "patriarchal figure" in the village.

One of her victims recently lost her father. as the "weakest girl in the village" in the yard.

Offenses occurred between January 2016 and February 2017.

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The abuses only stopped when Morris, of New Bridge Road, Hull, was arrested in February 2017, after a British tourist had begun to be wary of his behavior towards children.

After arrest, he tried to transfer money to people he knew in Kenya to convince them to innocent him.

Morris told a victim that he would help finance his school if she was lying to the police, she later told the officers that she was afraid of starving without her support

. Judge Robin Mairs told him, "You were a benefactor to the people of this village, especially the children."

"There is no doubt that you have used your high and financially powerful position to gain access to girls on the most vulnerable of the most vulnerable."