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A paedophile who fled to Spain after being found guilty of taking part in a child sex ring has been jailed.
Leila Kassam, 32, of Mornington Road, Leytonstone, was jailed at Blackfriars Crown Court today (Monday, December 12) for four years.
She admitted having sex with a 15-year-old girl and arranging a child sex offence in June this year before fleeing the country while on bail.
Kassam and her partner, Paul Silverthorn, 36, also of Mornington Road, had with sex the girl after she was introduced to them by a fixer in 2014.
Silverthorn tied the victim to a bed after she was given the legal high 5 NEO at a party in Coventry House, Haymarket, before Kassam molested her.
The couple also sexually abused a second 15-year-old girl, while Silverthorn took explicit photos of the teenager.
Kassam escaped to Spain before she was sentenced and worked on a farm in Ibiza over the summer months.
Kassam and ex-boyfriend Paul Silverthorn went on the run in June
The farm owner contacted police after seeing Crimewatch and Crimestoppers appeals online.
A European Arrest Warrant was executed by the Guardia Civil in Spain and Kassam was flown back to the UK on December 9.
Silverthorn is still on the run following his conviction.
He is also wanted for administering a substance to a second 16-year-old victim, possessing prohibited images of a child and distributing indecent photographs of a child.
He was sentenced to nine years behind bars in absence.
Faham Jaffer, 33, of High Street, Colliers Wood, and Daniel Trinnaman, 20, of Ventnor Avenue, Stanmore, were jailed in June for their parts in the plot.
Trinnaman was sentenced for sexual activity with a child and perverting the course of justice by sending threatening Facebook messages while Jaffer was found guilty of having sex with a child.
