London protest for Brazil inmate

Craig Alden, from Cambridgeshire, is a prisoner in Brazil

Supporters of a charity worker jailed in Brazil are holding a protest meeting in London on Tuesday.

Craig Alden, 36, from Warboys near Huntingdon, Cambs, was convicted three years ago of abusing children at an orphanage he founded in Brazil.

Alden has said he is a victim of a miscarriage of justice.

On Tuesday, his supporters have organised a mass protest at Whitehall and on Wednesday they are demonstrating outside the Brazilian Embassy.

They will also hand a petition against the imprisonment, signed by more than 2,000 people, to Embassy officials.

Alden has the support of pressure group Fair Trials Abroad.

It said Alden, who is married to a Brazilian woman, had not had a fair trial.

In 2002 he was jailed for 48 years - later reduced to 11 - for abusing children at the Abrigo Home orphanage.