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Article: Australia plans to deport pedophile to Britain, immigration department says
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- May 3, 2006
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AP Worldstream
05-03-2006
Dateline: SYDNEY, Australia
The government is moving to deport a convicted pedophile to Britain by revoking his visa instead of incarcerating him indefinitely in Australia, a spokesman said Wednesday.
William John Gallagher, a 61-year-old Scottish national who has lived for years in Australia, was facing spending the remainder of his life behind bars in Australia after a string of child sex convictions, the latest for the aggravated indecent assault of a 13-year-old boy in Sydney in 2003.
But instead Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone has canceled his visa and plans to send him back to Britain as soon as possible. Gallagher has ...