He came dangling hope, an almost instant magnet for vulnerable families struggling to put a meal on the table. But the entry of the ‘knight in shining armour’ to a remote village in Maweni, Kilifi, would end in tears for eight girls. Morris was jailed by the UK court for defiling the children and trying to buy their silence by bribing them and their parents. It later emerged that Morris, his wife Julie Sharp, with the help of the girls’ parents, had lodged a legal motion seeking custody of eight children. And a Turkish tycoon, Osman Elsek Erdenc, who was arrested in January 2019 for allegedly defiling girls between February and October 2018, is battling charges in court.

Source: Standard Digital January 24, 2021 18:10 UTC