LONDON, (Reuters) – A vicar was charged yesterday with two offences related to helping arrange 180 “sham marriages” that helped illegal immigrants stay in Britain, the UK Border Agency and police said.
They said the Reverend Alex Brown, 60, from St. Peter and St. Paul Church, in Saint Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, had been charged with conspiring to aid unlawful entry.
He was also charged with “solemnizing a marriage according to the rights of the Church of England” without banns of matrimony being published.
