A Metropolitan Police officer has been jailed after he tried to send "highly sexualised" messages to a 13-year-old girl. Detective Constable Mark Collins, 58, has been jailed for more than two years after he was caught in an undercover sting.
The disgraced cop admitted one count of attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity and six counts of attempting to engage in sexual communications with a child.
The Old Bailey in London heard Collins, from Fleet, in Hampshire, thought he was talking to a 13-year-old girl when he sent pictures of his privates over the Kik Messenger app while he was on holiday in Malta.
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