A serial sex offender caught trying to meet a 13-year-old girl in Telford on Valentine's Day has been jailed.
Jonathan Godson, aged 59, was caught by police after a sting operation by a paedophile hunting group called Confronted in Court.
Instead, as he parked up opposite with his hazard lights on, a member of Confronted in Court approached the car and opened the door, at which point Godson drove off with his door still open. They included possession of indecent images in 2003, and then possession of around 35,000 indecent images, for which he received a lengthy prison sentence in Jersey in 2013.Sentencing, Judge Peter Barrie, said the offences were a"grave matter", and a"very serious escalation" from looking at images to trying to undertake physical abuse of a child.
"On this occasion you were using the internet, you were attracted to contact a person, which had in effect been uploaded by a child protection group, a member pertaining to be a 13-year-old girl.
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