When Dean Dempster woke early on the morning of his penultimate shift as a respected police 'response officer' based in Oldham, he picked up his iPhone Pro 13 and searched the internet.
He had breakfast at his home in West Didsbury, south Manchester, and then casually looked up 'girls in diapers and pull ups', 'girls in nice underwear' and 'little girls on the beach and pool'.
It was still 7am. Eventually, the sheer scale and horror of his secret depravity would be exposed, but, tragically, not before he carried out a horrific sex attack on small child, a girl under the age of ten after he started his shift.
During a 999 call to a troubled home in Oldham that day - where screaming and shouting had been heard - he took his vulnerable victim, who it was suspected had been assaulted, into a bedroom ostensibly to speak to her.
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