<div><p>A court in Albania on Tuesday sentenced two Englishmen to lenghty prison terms for sexually molesting and abusing children at an orphanage in Albania.</p><p>Dino Christodoulou, 45, and Robin Arnold, 56, received prison sentences of 20 and 15 years and six months respectively for sexually abusing children aged six to nine in the orphanage.</p><p>The two, who were extradited from Britain to Albania two years ago, were also declared personae non gratae and will be deported on completing their jail terms.</p><p>In 2008 a court sentenced their Scottish charity work partner John David Brown to 20 years in prison on the same charges.</p><p>The three Britons came to Albania in 1999 during the war in neighbouring Kosovo. They set up a charity organisation, His Children, in 2001, housing orphans and abandoned children found on the streets of the capital Tirana.</p><p>But the orphanage was shut down in 2006 on Brown's arrest.</p><p>Christodoulou and Arnold were arrested in London in September 2007 and were later extradited to Albania.</p><p>Judge Shefkie Demiraj mentioned six cases of sexual abuse for Christodoulou and one for Arnold, court officials said.</p><p>The defendants were planning to appeal the verdicts as they said during the trial they were innocent of the charges.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=66777102&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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