‘I can’t go back to Latvia – I might be intimidated in prison’

A Latvian man who hid in the UK after he was convicted of a serious assaults against a young girl will be sent home after a judge rejected his claims he might be ‘intimidated’ in prison. Kaspars Botters, 39, was found guilty of five offences against a girl under the age of 16 on five occasions from 2009 to 2014. But he slipped out of the country and was arrested in Nottingham after a conviction warrant was issued by Latvian…