A "DEVIOUS" former teacher from Worcester has been jailed for having sex with a boy in Romania.

Paedophile Andrew Sadler was starting the second day of a four-year jail term today after being convicted of sexual corruption and sex with a minor of the same sex.

The 51-year-old sex tourist was arrested along with another man on Tuesday, January 25, in a rented flat in the Romanian capital Bucharest. They were with two boys.

Ilie Gabriel, a Romanian national, was locked up for three years by the same Bucharest court on Thursday.

Norman Trew, head of the National Criminal Intelligence Service, said West Mercia police raided Sadler's Worcester flat in the hunt for evidence.

"British paedophiles, like Sadler, believe that they can indulge in sex tourism and escape the grasp of the law," said Mr Trew. "At NICS we continue to provide intelligence and work in partnership with overseas law enforcement to crush the evil practice of sex tourism.

"Men who travel overseas to satisfy their devious urges are invariably articulate, quite well-educated, and intelligent.

"They target vulnerable children in developing countries by either buying their sexual favours from the street or beach children."

He said international police co-operation was cutting the risks to children.

The NCIS combats travelling paedophiles through its work with the Interpol Specialist Group on Crimes Against Children.

"The case against Andrew Sadler is an excellent example of this."

West Mercia police were unable to make a comment today.

A report to the Commission on Human Rights has revealed that European and North American paedophiles started focusing on Eastern Europe as a new "sphere of operation" in the mid to late-1990s.