UNITED KINGDOM
Western Daily Press
A Saltford church worker and child abuser has walked from court a free man – despite having just been jailed for two and a half years for sexual offences.
A judge condemned Philip Barlow as a “hypocrite, liar and a paedophile” as he imposed the jail term.
But because the married 33-year-old has already served the equivalent time in prison, he is a free man today.
In December 2011, Barlow was jailed for four years after being found guilty of 14 offences of sexual abuse of two young girls. The convictions were later quashed on appeal and a retrial ordered.
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