Alex Brown Dept: Mr. Brown presided over 383 marriages at the Church of St Peter and St Paul in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, between July 2005 and July 2009, the “vast majority” of which were believed to be false, Lewes Crown Court heard, according to Globe And Mail. The Press Association reported that prosecutor David Walbank showed jurors photocopies of the marriage register at the church, which showed that 360 weddings during the period involved eastern Europeans marrying African nationals, mainly from Nigeria and rev Alex Brown, 61, is accused of conspiring with co-defendants Michael Adelasoye, 50, and Vladymyr Buchak, 33, to facilitate the commission of breaches of immigration laws. The Crown alleges that the three men preyed on eastern European migrants who were living in the area and desperate to earn money, by offering them cash sums of up to £3,000 to marry Africans to allow them to obtain the documents to live and work in the UK. As
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