Tourist’s ‘instinct’ led to arrest of paedophile, 72

A British paedophile who preyed on vulnerable Kenyan children was caught after a holidaymaker used “gut instinct” to report him to authorities.

Keith Morris, from Hull, travelled to a rural village in Kilifi County over a period of about 20 years and met with groups of young girls, but was flagged to the National Crime Agency by David Bushell, a tourist, after he believed something was “seriously wrong”.

Mr Bushell, from London, said that he observed Morris over three days after spotting the 72-year-old with groups of girls aged between 10 and 12.

In an interview with the BBC, he said: “I felt like something was wrong but I was not really sure why the alarm bells were ringing.”

After hotel staff told Mr Bushell that Morris was in the process of adopting eight girls, he called the NCA.

Morris, a retired locksmith, was convicted at Leeds Crown Court of four counts of rape, four counts of assault by penetration, two charges of sexual assault and two counts of perverting the course of justice.