CBI team in London to assist in wanted paedophile extradition

The CBI has sent a team of its officials to London to assist legal authorities there in the extradition of Raymond Andrew Varley, who allegedly molested hundreds of orphaned children in 1995 at a shelter home in Goa.
The two-member team has reached London to assist Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which acts as the principal prosecuting authority for England and Wales, for Varley's extradition, official sources said here today.
The extradition of Varley has been rejected by London's Westminster court and an appeal has been filed at the High Court of England and Wales which will be heard tomorrow, they said.

CBI, not directly a party in the case, is dependent on CPS in the matter. The agency is providing all the help to CPS to secure extradition of the accused.
Varley's extradition was cleared by the UK government but he approached Westminster court against the decision. His extradition was turned down by the court on a solitary ground that the accused was suffering from dementia.
The agency sources said that Varley produced opinion from a private doctor to claim that he was suffering from dementia but the CPS did not challenge the move or seek an independent medical opinion on his mental health.

The suspected paedophile is accused of abusing and torturing young children in an orphanage in Panaji for nearly 20 years.

In the late 1980s, Varley allegedly used to come to Panaji to visit an orphanage claimed to have been run by a German, Freddy Albert Peats. Later, police had raided the orphanage and found shocking evidence of an international paedophile racket, the sources said.
A charge sheet was filed against Peats, Varley and some other foreigners. Peats was arrested and later died in a prison but Varley had escaped police arrest, they said.
The CBI, which did not register the case, had issued a red corner notice against Varley on the basis of a request by Goa Police, which is following the matter, they said.

Even if the case goes in CBI's favour, Raymond will have a chance to appeal before the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, the sources added.