Packed with kids’ shoes and dolls , the ‘paedophile’ doctor’s suitcase
A RETIRED British ‘doctor’ accused of paying girls as young as 12 for sex in Cambodia had a suitcase packed with children’s clothes and Barbie dolls, it has been claimed.
Clive Cressy, 68, who runs a medical publishing firm based in Hove, East Sussex, is accused of paying up to £2,300 for sex with four girls aged 12, 13, 14 and 15.
Cressy, who claims he is a licensed physician, Oxford-educated linguist and children’s author, was arrested at a cafe in the capital Phnom Penh last Thursday after a police investigation into him and his 27-year-old Vietnamese girlfriend, Chea Sokthy. She is accused of soliciting children for prostitution.
Cambodian police allege that he paid up to £2,300 to have sex with a virgin and offered other girls between £60 and £80 for sex.
When they raided his address, police allegedly found a stash of children’s toys, dolls, crayons and young girls’ shoes as well as sex toys, Viagra and video cameras. Officers also seized computer equipment and DVDs.
Yesterday, Keo Thea, the Phnom Penh municipal police chief in charge of tackling human trafficking, revealed that officers had been following the suspect for several months after complaints from the mothers of the girls he is accused of abusing. It is understood that inquiries are continuing into other possible child victims. Police are investigating whether Cressy had been running a private medical clinic in Cambodia, which may have given him access to victims.
He was described by police in Cambodia as being a qualified doctor living in Phnom Penh, where he allegedly abused the children, but the General Medical Council said he had not practised in the UK.
Cressy, who is divorced, is listed online as being a qualified Swedish translator and is the director of Sussex-based company Medic Consultancy Ltd and Oxford Publishers Ltd, which produces medical journals.
For the past ten years he has returned to Britain only once every six months to stay at the Chatsworth Hotel in Hove, which he used as a Post Office box address to collect mail.
Hotelier Francis Gerber said: ‘I am shocked by this. He lives abroad and comes back every six months to stay for one night and collect his mail. Clive seemed a gentleman to me.’
On Monday, Cressy and his girlfriend appeared at Phnom Penh Municipal Court. He was charged with buying child prostitution, while she was charged with soliciting child prostitution. Both were remanded in custody to await trial.