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WOMAN PAEDO’S SEX WITH GIRL, 15

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A WOMAN who had sex with a 15-year-old girl she had plied with legal highs and booze before fleeing to Spain has been jailed.

Leila Kassam, 32, along with her boyfriend befriended the girl and took her back to a flat.

The teenager was given the legal highs and alcohol before she was sexually abused by the pair.

Kassam pleaded guilty to child sexual exploitati­on offences in March but before her sentencing skipped bail, fleeing to Ibiza where she found work as a farmhand over the summer.

But the Spanish farm owner saw Crimewatch and Crimestopp­ers appeals for Kassam’s return online and contacted police.

An European Arrest Warrant was issued and Kassam was flown back to the UK on Friday to face justice.

She was handed a four-year sentence in her absence at Blackfriar­s Crown Court on June 27 and yesterday was given an additional six weeks THERE’s more than one reason to tune into U.S. telly series Quarry – in fact, there’s TWO.

Jodi Balfour is the leading lady in the gritty crime drama and she isn’t shy when it comes to flashing her assets onscreen.

The 25-year-old actress plays Joni Conway, the wife of Marine Mac Conway who returns home after serving in the Vietnam War.

Jodi ditches her clothes for several steamy sex scenes with Mac, played by Logan Marshall -Green.

You can watch the first episode of Quarry on Sky Atlantic next Wednesday. for breaching bail conditions.

She had been sentenced to three years for having unlawful sex with the 15-year-old.

Her former boyfriend, Paul Michael Silverthor­n, 36 , is still on the run, wanted for two counts of unlawful sex with the same 15-year-old victim, giving a substance to a second victim, aged 16, and for possessing prohibited images of a child.

Having appeared in court in March where he pleaded guilty to all but one offence.

He was found guilty in his absence but failed to appear for sentencing in June, when he was given a nine-year jail term. HIGHS: Kassam and ( Silverthor­n

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