A perverted dad who paid a schoolgirl to meet him and asked for a picture of her feet had vile child abuse images on his devices.
Austin Rickerby, 43, had signed up to a website and used the name "mystical gentleman" looking to meet adults for sex but one person he spoke to turned out to be aged just 14.
Despite this revelation, he continued to communicate in a sexual manner with her and met up with her three times although no sexual activity is said to have taken place, Chronicle Live writes.
When police examined a number of electronic devices seized from his address in Blyth, Northumberland, they found that he had downloaded several indecent images and appeared to have organised them according to the ages of those featured.
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