Paul Anthony Bures,Graeme Marshall, Peter Melling, Derek Marshall

Paul Anthony Bures an ex-pat builder from Kent, living in Spain had been on a Crime Stoppers “most wanted” list before he gave himself up last October.
Co-accused Middlesbrough man, Peter Melling, also living in Spain, had already been arrested in Bulgaria last July.A paedophile chain possibly based in Spain linked to four men, two of whom had moved to live in the same area of Spain.
They are awaiting sentence with a father and son, formerly from North Shields, who admitted facilitating the abuse.
Judge John Evans adjourned sentence for reports.
But remanding Melling, 57, and Bures, 53, in custody, he warned: “These are serious matters and custodial sentences are inevitable.”
Bures admitted sexual activity with a child and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity between August and October 2006. He further admitted possessing indecent images of children in March last year.
Melling, from Urban San Luis, Spain, admitted eight charges of sexual activity with a child between December 2004 and October 2006. Those offences involve four different boys.
Two other defendants, Derek Marshall and his son Graeme Marshall, admitted arranging or facilitating the commission of child sex offences.
Marshall junior, 24, formerly of Ripley Avenue, North Shields, admitted taking one boy to Melling’s home in Torrevieja, Spain and another to a caravan park in Sandy Bay, Northumberland, where he left him unsupervised with Melling.
Marshall senior, 51, of Melbourne Street, Carlisle, admitted arranging for a boy to spend a night with Melling in a bedroom and taking another to him.
All four defendants had been due to stand trial but entered their guilty pleas.
Marshall senior and Melling had lived together in Middlesbrough for years as younger men and may have continued to communicate.
Bures had been living in the Albox area of Spain, with his wife Denise, a chiropodist. Melling had settled in an area nearby and it is believed the men became pals.
However, police were never able to establish how all the defendants had forged their sinister connections.
Melling and Bures both have previous separate convictions for indecent assault on a male.
Amanda Rippon, prosecuting, said Melling and Bures would automatically be banned for life from working with children. They must also register as sex offenders.
Melling was deported from Bulgaria to stand trial for the child sex offences.
All four men are now due to be sentenced on February 8.