Man who befriended UK families jailed after failing to reveal rape conviction

Robin Arnold breached a sexual harm prevention order when he befriended immigrant African families in Carlisle without revealing his past. Photograph: Cumbria police

A 71-year-old man convicted of raping an orphaned boy in Albania has been jailed in the UK for befriending families and children without telling them of his past.

Robin Arnold brought the children, all from an immigrant African community in Carlisle, Cumbria, gifts and they called him “Uncle Rob”, a court heard on Tuesday.