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French man held conspirator in Peats case

The local bench of the Bombay high court has held French national Dominique Sabire a conspirator, along with Freddy Peats in the infamous two-decade-long child abuse racket that was busted in 1991.

While quashing the order of the Margao sessions court, issued in May last year to separate Sabire from being tried along with Peats and others, the high court held that there was sufficient evidence against him for trying him for conspiracy.

The 61-year-old French paedophile, arrested in Delhi while in transit to Nepal in 1998, managed to jump bail in February. Despite issuing a non-bailable warrant against him later, the Goa and Delhi police failed to trace him.

"Presuming he fled the country, the next step would be to get a proclamation issued against Sabire and sent to the Interpol to trace him in France," says S B Faria, the Central Bureau of Investigation counsel handling the cases locally. He said he did not know why the whole procedure had been delayed.

The Delhi CBI has also failed to extradite Raymond Andrew Varley, a British national arrested in London in July by the Interpol, to India. The only undertrial jailed here is 60-year-old E C McBride alias Owens, a New Zealand national. Peats has already been punished with life imprisonment.

While Sabire was also remanded to judicial custody pending trial, the sessions court released him on June 23 last year, granting him conditional bail and directing him to report to the CBI's Panjim office initially and then to the Calangute police station.

He, however, jumped bail.

Brinkman Helmut, a German convicted by the lower court in February last year in yet another child abuse case, escaped soon after the sessions court acquitted him, even before his acquittal was challenged in the high court.

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