Irish sex tourist, 44, arrested in Colombian hotel room 'paying £31 to have sex with a child'

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: A 44-year-old antheral from Ireland was arrested successful Colombia aft constabulary burst successful connected him astatine his edifice successful Medellin, Colombia, and allegedly caught him with a 15-year-old girl

Police successful Colombia person arrested a “depraved” enactment tourer from Ireland allegedly caught successful a edifice country with a 15-year-old girl amid claims helium had offered her £31 for sex.

Local officers released footage of the infinitesimal they held the 44-year-old from Dublin, named lone arsenic Seamus, and escorted him to a constabulary van successful handcuffs. The fishy was caught “red-handed” successful a country astatine the unnamed edifice successful Medellin, Colombia.

The 34-year-old edifice manager was besides arrested and some men were remanded to a section jailhouse pursuing a tribunal appearance. William Castano Ramos, the caput of Valle de Aburra’s Metropolitan Police said: “An Irish national has been captured for the intersexual exploitation of a insignificant nether the property of 18 successful the centre of Medellin.

“A insignificant aged 15 was recovered wrong 1 of the rooms astatine a edifice successful the centre of the metropolis with a 44-year-old foreigner during checks astatine the establishment. The teen said this antheral had offered her 160,000 pesos successful speech for a intersexual brushwood with her.

“As good arsenic the apprehension of this antheral from Dublin successful Ireland, we besides handed implicit the edifice head to the courts for promoting prostitution. The edifice has been banned from opening arsenic portion of a measurement which is impermanent astatine the infinitesimal portion the transgression probe continues.”

Medellin politician Federico Gutierrez declared warfare connected enactment tourists successful April, banning the connection of intersexual services successful different Medellin neighbourhood for six months. Describing the fishy arsenic a “depraved person” connected X, helium said: “We bash not halt the combat against intersexual exploitation of children and adolescents successful Medellin. Zero tolerance.

“Thanks to a national ailment and the timely and coordinated enactment betwixt the constabulary and nationalist prosecutors, it was imaginable to place a overseas national who entered a edifice successful the centre of the metropolis successful the institution of a minor. This idiosyncratic was arrested for the transgression of demanding the intersexual exploitation of a insignificant nether the property of 18 and the edifice manager for the transgression of promoting prostitution.

“The Irish national, called Seamus, a 44-year-old from Dublin, had arrived successful Colombia 3 months agone and had arranged to person a intersexual brushwood with the 15-year-old for a outgo of PESOS Colombian 160.000. He had already paid her fractional of that.

“The hotel's commercialized enactment was temporarily suspended for 10 days and its definitive closure was requested. Both the men arrested person been remanded successful preventive custody.

“The connection is precise clear; those who travel to exploit our children and women are not lone not invited but we volition prosecute them until they are caught. These depraved radical volition proceed to fall.”