Vicar guilty of conducting hundreds of sham marriages

A VICAR was yesterday found guilty of conducting sham marriages to allow illegal immigrants to stay in Britain.

Vicar guilty of conducting hundreds of sham marriages

The Rev Alex Brown conducted the “massive and cynical scam” over a four-year period which involved hard-up Eastern Europeans being paid up to £3,000 to marry Africans.

The 61-year-old conducted 383 marriages at the Church of St Peter and St Paul in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, between July 2005 and July 2009.

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