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.

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.