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A sex offender has been jailed  for four years after detectives discovered a large amount of child abuse images at his home.

Philip Cliffe, aged 41, came to the attention of Nottinghamshire Police in October 2023 when his IP address - the unique reference code linking an individual account holder to the internet - was linked to images of child sexual abuse.

Detectives carried out a search at his home address and recovered several electronic devices including a laptop and a memory stick.

Forensic analysis of the devices revealed thousands of images showing the sexual abuse of children - some of them babies.

Around 1,000 of the images were graded as Category A - depicting the most serious abuse that can be perpetrated by adults against children.

Cliffe's devices were also found to contain extreme adult pornographic material.

Cliffe, of  Carlton, declined to answer officers' questions in his police interview, but later pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children, possessing a prohibited image of a child, and possessing extreme (adult) pornographic images.

Appearing at Nottinghamshire Crown Court on Friday he was jailed for four years.

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A predatory sex offender has been jailed after raping a vulnerable 12-year-old girl in Nottingham.

The girl was walking near Crown Island, Nottingham, on the night of 18 May last year when she began talking to Humza Khan – a man with a previous conviction for sexual assault.

Khan, aged 29, then led his victim to a park where he subjected her to a prolonged sexual assault.

Detectives used CCTV footage to link Khan and his bicycle to the scene.

He had also given his mobile phone number to the victim before the offence took place, and was positively identified by the victim during a controlled ID procedure,

Khan, previously of Hawton Crescent, Wollaton, gave no comment answers to detectives in his police interview, but later pleaded guilty to rape.

Appearing at Nottingham Crown Court on Friday 7 March, he was jailed for nine years and three months.

He was also made the subject of a sexual harm prevention order which will forbid him from almost all contact with children for the next 15 years.

In addition, he will also remain on the sex offenders’ register for the rest of his life.

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A sex offender who raped an underage girl has been jailed.

Conner Dilkes, aged 18, assaulted the girl in July 2023 and was arrested soon afterwards.

Dilkes was interviewed several times and gave inconsistent accounts.

In his first interview, he denied knowing the girl and insisted he had never met her.

However CCTV and forensic evidence proved otherwise and he went on to plead guilty to two counts of rape in relation to the attack, which happened in an overgrown area in Daybrook.

Dilkes, of Oxclose Lane, Arnold, also admitted theft, assault by beating and possession of an offensive weapon in a public place in relation to an unconnected incident in June last year.

Appearing at Nottingham Crown Court on Thursday he was jailed for four-and-a-half years.

He was also added to the sex offenders’ register for life and also made the subject of a sexual harm prevention order that will tightly restrict his activities once he is released.

An indefinite restraining order that prevents him contacting his rape victim was also imposed by the sentencing judge.

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Colin Gregory aka Anthony Luckwill

A notorious paedophile from Nottingham offered to pay a young teen in California thousands of dollars to "recruit" young boys to pose naked for his sexual gratification. 

Nottingham Crown Court heard how Nottinghamshire Police called in the FBI to help investigate "manipulative and deceitful” Anthony Luckwill, who has been previously jailed in Wales, Ireland and Scotland over the past 20 years but is now living in Sherwood under the new name of Colin Gregory.

Examination of his electronic devices found sick abuse videos, some of which he shared with like-minded perverts and one called “14-year-old and 12-year-old by the pool”.

Handing him a 10-year jail sentence, Judge Michael Auty KC said: “You offered to pay a 15-year-old who lives with his mother in California, the princely sum of $1,000 to appear in a video with you for up to three hours to satisfy your insatiable appetite for teenage boys. This is all set among a backdrop of your truly horrific previous convictions. You pose a high risk to teenage boys and I fear it is virtually certain you will continue to offend in this way.

“There is no doubt you present a serious ongoing danger. You will forever remain an immense danger to those you lust (after). You are a manipulative and deceitful individual when the need arises.”

At the start of the sentencing hearing, prosecutor Stephen Kemp outlined some of the 16 convictions for 60 offences Gregory has on his criminal record. He said they included prison sentences and suspended sentences since 2004 in South Wales, Dublin, Scotland, Guernsey and Nottingham.

The prosecutor said the defendant's address in Pelham Road was visited by the police on September 21, 2023, and his devices were seized and analysed. Mr Kemp said it revealed that, among other deviant behaviour, he was communicating with the teenager in Los Angeles.

He said: “They entered an agreement whereby the defendant would pay him to recruit a number of boys for a photo shoot with him agreeing to pay for footage of up to 100 boys posing either naked or in their underwear. He then incited the boy to have a video chat with him for up to three hours with sexual activity and offered to pay him $1,000 just for that. The FBI became involved who offered information that the boy was 15 years old and lived with his mother in California.”

Gregory pleaded guilty to charges including possession of indecent images of children, breaching a sexual harm prevention order. conspiracy to produce indecent images and inciting a child to engage in sexual communication.

Kevin Waddingham, mitigating, said his client has “largely led an isolated life” and has “very little in the way of a family network”. He said: “He would ask the court to be as lenient as possible. He has a positive outlook about his future and he would ask not to have that crushed.”

The whole sentence is 18 years, made up of 10 years of custody and an eight-year extended licence. It means Gregory will not be eligible to apply for parole until halfway through the custodial element.

He will also remain on the sex offender register for life and has a lifetime sexual harm prevention order.

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A Nottingham paedophile caught with more than 1,000 vile child abuse images was told by a judge the young people he was getting sexual pleasure from viewing were sentenced to “a living death”.

Malcom Corbett also exchanged sex messages with a 13-year-old girl telling her “it’s a shame the law does not take into account people’s emotions”.

But Poppy, the teen the 55-year-old thought he was engaging in disgusting and illegal chats with, was really a decoy. And when the police went to arrest the defendant and his then West Bridgford flat, they found 600 of the most serious category A child sex pictures and videos.

Handing him an 18-month jail term, suspended for two years, at Nottingham Crown Court, Judge Stuart Rafferty said: "You should be ashamed of yourself. A man of your age propositioning girls, who you believed were real girls, aged 13, is simply outrageous.

“Yes, you are disabled, yes, you are lonely, yes, you have too much time on your hands and yes, you don’t get on with the people you were living with but you were living a fantasy. You amassed over 1,000 indecent pictures of children and if you bothered to look at the faces on those photos you would see fear, sadness and misery.

“Because every one of these children you were looking at was a real person and every one of them will never be a whole person again because of you and people like you. These children will never be whole again, they can’t be because their innocence has been taken away from them.

“Their privacy has been taken away from them and their soul has been taken away from them. They have been sentenced to a living death.

“But if I send you to prison all you will do is sit in your cell feeling sorry for yourself thinking you have not done anything wrong. Don't you dare come back before me again and don’t you dare spend another minute not being ashamed of what you did.”

Gareth Gimson, prosecuting, said Corbett used two social media applications to chat online to Poppy, who the defendant believed was a 13-year-old girl. The prosecutor said in messages he told her he “loved younger girls” asked her to send him pictures of herself and when the decoy did, he told he she “looked gorgeous”.

Mr Gimson said: “He said in one message ‘it’s a shame the law does not take into account people’s emotions’. He asked if she had a PayPal account, and the reason for that is that he told her he could ‘send her a little money’.

“He sent pictures and a video of himself lying on his bed.” The prosecutor said the police were alerted to what was happening and went to his then address in Greythorn Drive.

Mr Gimson said a phone was examined and found to contain 600 of the most serious category A child abuse images, 432 category B and 160 category C. He said there were internet search terms including “young girl nudism” and “teen underwear”.

Corbett, now of Mansfield Road, Blidworth, Mansfield, pleaded guilty to attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child and three counts of making indecent images of children. He has no previous convictions.

Raglan Ashton, mitigating, said his client “would very much take advantage of the help and the support the probation service can offer him”.

As part of the suspended sentence order, the judge ordered the defendant to attend 35 rehabilitation sessions with the probation service, placed him on the sex offender register for five years and handed him a five-year sexual harm prevention order.

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A paedophile who distributed indecent images of children and possessed extreme animal pornography has been jailed.

Adrian Harkin, 34, was imprisoned for two years and eight months at Nottingham Crown Court on Tuesday (January 21) after admitting eight offences.

Harkin, formerly of Bath Street, Nottingham, was placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely and made subject of a five-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order as part of his sentence.

He was arrested in May 2023 after a woman contacted police to say Harkin had sent her indecent images of children via a dating app.

The court heard the images were unsolicited and that Harkin told the woman he had a sexual interest in children and animals.

Harkin was located and arrested and a number of devices seized. The case was then allocated to a specialist officer on Nottinghamshire Police’s Internet Child Exploitation Team, where the seized devices were reviewed and the extent of Harkin’s offending identified.

Numerous chats were located on Harkin’s phone where he distributed indecent images of children and discussed the graphic sexual abuse of children.

His phone contained over nine hours of indecent videos showing girls as young as four being horrifically abused.

Over 20 different chats were identified where Harkin was distributing images and discussing the abuse of children. He also wrote he was looking for animals to abuse.

Harkin pleaded guilty to a string of offences including:

• Making indecent images of children, namely 66 category A images and 143 category A videos
• Making indecent images of children, namely 52 category B images and 3 category B videos
• Making indecent images of children, namely 103 category C images
• Possessing prohibited images of children (53 images)
• Possessing extreme pornographic images portraying a sexual act with an animal, namely 109 images which were grossly offensive, disgusting or otherwise of an obscene character
• Distributing indecent images of children, namely 33 category A videos of children
• Distributing indecent images of children, namely 5 category B images of children
• Distributing indecent images of children, namely 13 category C images of children

Following his sentencing, Detective Constable Tom Nuttall, who led the investigation, said:

“Harkin has deep-rooted sexual perversions and I am pleased he is behind bars.

“The material he possessed and shared can only be described as depraved – depicting the most serious sexual offences committed by adults against children and animals.

“People who download and view this kind of material may not believe they are doing any harm, but in reality they are helping to fuel a depraved cycle of abuse that causes immense physical and emotional harm.

“That’s why we dedicate so many resources to ensuring the people who are consuming this material are caught and safeguarding measures swiftly implemented.”

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Detectives have praised the bravery of a victim who recorded a rapists violent attack on her.

Timilehin Olatunji launched a sustained attack on the woman at a property in Nottingham in the early hours of 29 September 2024.

The victim was able to use an app on her mobile phone to record the audio of the assault.

She was later able to escape from the address and report what had happened to specially-trained officers.

Thirty-five-year-old Olatunji was arrested a short time later.

He was charged and later pleaded guilty to three counts of rape.

Olatunji was jailed for 10 years when he appeared at Nottingham Crown Court for sentencing on Wednesday (15 January).

He was also added to the Sex Offenders' Register for life and made the subject of an indefinite restraining order to protect the victim.

Passing sentence, Judge Michael Auty described the attack as 'despicable and vile' and behaviour 'beyond rational understanding'.

He told Olatunji:

"You took it upon yourself to rape her in the most brutal, sadistic and cruel way imaginable."

After the hearing, Detective Constable Emily Bucklow, of Nottinghamshire Police, said:

The recorded evidence of Olatunjis horrific assault made this case particularly harrowing for all the officers who worked on it.

It is one of the most upsetting things I have had to listen to in my policing career and only enhances my admiration for this victims bravery.

I would also like to commend her for the courage she showed following Olatunjis arrest and dignity during the subsequent court proceedings.

He subjected her to a violent, degrading and sustained ordeal but she has shown immense bravery to help us bring him to justice.

I hope the sentence handed down will at least provide some closure to what must have been an acutely distressing period of her life.

I also hope the sentencing of Olatunji will encourage other victims of rape and serious sexual assault to have the confidence to come forward and report offenders.

Our experienced officers are here to help the victims of appalling crimes like this.

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A Nottingham paedophile told a 13-year-old girl he would “train to be a science teacher so he could have sex with her at school”.

Nottingham Crown Court heard how Riece Joynes also sent the teen clips where he was touching himself sexually.

But 'Ellie' was, in fact, an undercover police officer and the 23-year-old was arrested at his Bulwell home. On being bailed, the defendant told officers he would not behave in that way again.

But months later he was caught by a second undercover officer, this time posing as a 14-year-old girl. Jailing him for two-and-a-half years, Recorder Simon King said: “It is clear to me that only an immediate custodial sentence can be justified.

“I seems to me that there is a real risk if you don’t sit up and pay real attention to how society views what you do with your time you will be considered as someone who poses a danger to children.” Daniel Wilshaw, prosecuting, said Joynes and 'Ellie' began talking to each other online in October, last year, and within a short space of time he turned their conversations into sexual ones.

He said the defendant sent videos of himself touching himself sexually and "asked her to take her clothes off” adding that “it would be cool if you were here, maybe we could have sex?” The prosecutor said: “She told him about her school and he replied that he ‘could train as a science teacher so they could have sex at the school’.

“Police went to his address and arrested him on December 28, 2023 and seized his mobile phone. On his devices they found 618 category A indecent images, 43 category B and 223 category C.

“There were various ages including a baby and a 1min 29sec video showed a girl aged six-to-eight being raped by an adult.” Mr Wilshaw said after being bailed on those offences, in May of this year, Joynes was caught again by a second undercover officer posing as an underage girl.

He said on that occasion their discussions included sex positions and that he was attracted to girls of her age - 14. The defendant, of Montague Street, pleaded guilty to charges of possession of indecent images of children, attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child and attempting to cause a child to watch a sexual act.

He has no previous convictions. Steven Gosnell, mitigating, said his client is autistic, suffers low self-estem and was bullied at school.

He said: “He is desperate to rehabilitate himself and desperate for help.” As well as the jail term, the judge handed Joynes an indefinite sexual harm prevention order and placed him on the sex offender register for life.

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A former teacher has been jailed for sexual offences against a pupil at the school where he worked.

Craig Hill, aged 46, who taught at Hall Park Academy in Eastwood, admitted two counts of sexual activity with a child and one count of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity while in a position of trust as a teacher.

He committed the offences against the schoolgirl in the 2010s.

An investigation was launched by Nottinghamshire Police after the victim came forward in 2022 and reported the abuse she was subjected to.

Hill, of Mornington Crescent, Nuthall, was locked up for 32 months when he appeared at Nottingham Crown Court for sentencing on Friday 1 November.

Hill was made subject of a  sexual harm prevention order and must also sign the Sex Offenders’ Register indefinitely.

He was also handed a ten year restraining order preventing further contact with this victim.

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A convicted child sex offender has been returned to prison after further victims of his abuse came forward.

Neil Piggott, now aged 46, was previously jailed in 2019 for sexually assaulting another child two years before.

The publicity surrounding that conviction encouraged further victims of his offending to come forward and approach Nottinghamshire Police in 2021.

One woman reported that he had raped her twice when she was a teenager in the late 1990s.

Another young person gave an account of a previously unreported sexual assault in 2017, whilst a third victim explained how Piggott had posed as someone else to extract personal photographs from her in 2013.

Piggott initially declined to comment in his police interview and later pleaded not guilty to four charges.

After a trial at Nottingham Crown Court in September, he was found guilty of two counts of raping a female under the age of 16, one count of inciting the exploitation of a child, and one count of sexually assaulting a girl under the age of 13.

Appearing at Nottingham Crown Court on Monday 28 October, Piggott, of no fixed address, was given an extended 24 year prison sentence after being designated as a dangerous offender.

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A paedophile from Nottingham exchanged sexual messages with a 12-year-old girl “because he was sitting at home bored”. Pervert Richard Bull asked the girl for photos of her breasts.

But ‘Dani’ was really an undercover police officer posing as a young girl to snare like-minded sex offenders like the Bestwood 62-year-old. Jailing him for three years and four months, Judge James Sampson said: “You thought you were talking to a real 12-year-old and you were trying to get that child to engage in abusive, sexual, activity.

“In the event, there was no child because this was a police officer posing as a child decoy. The custody threshold has been crossed by some margin and I have no option other than to send you to prison.”

Stephen Kemp, prosecuting, said an undercover police officer created a fake profile for a 12-year-old girl called Dani and began posting on a social media site. He said Bull began talking to her online on July 4, last year, and their conversations soon moved to WhatsApp.

The prosecutor said: “Over a period of time, Mr Bull was asking for photos of her in her underwear and photos of her breasts." The prosecutor said Bull also asked the 'teen' if he could be her "virtual boyfriend".

"He sent her an image of himself, but it is right to say it was not a sexual image," said Mr Kemp. Mr Kemp said the communication stopped on July 20, last year and Bull, of The Mount, was arrested on July 27.

He pleaded guilty to attempting to cause or incite a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity and attempting to engage a child under 13 to engage in sexual communication. He has two previous convictions for unrelated offences from many years ago which the judge discounted when he sentenced him.

Mark Hemmings, mitigating, said the fact that ‘Dani’ was an undercover police officer meant that there was no actual victim and that his client had pleaded guilty to the two offences. He said: “He is 62, nearly 63 and he is not in good health.

“He has been out of work through sickness for a considerable time and Mr Bull says these offences began because he was sitting at home bored and got into this wrong element of behaviour.”

As well as the jail sentence, Judge Sampson handed the defendant a lifetime sexual harm prevention order and placed him on the sex offender register, also for life.

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A Nottingham-based child sex offender has been sentenced to 11 years and 4 months for the abuse of two teenage girls at a Manchester apartment.

Leo Farodoye (08/05/1990) of North Road in Nottingham was sentenced on Friday 20 September 2024 at Manchester Crown Court for multiple child sex offences, including inciting a child to engage in a sex act, breach of a SHPO, a sexual act with a child, and taking indecent photos of a child. He received 7 years and 4 months with an extended license of 4 years.

Farodoye had previously been convicted at Manchester Crown Court on Friday 24 May 2024. He also breached a previous Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) from 2014.

The court heard how Nottingham-based Farodoye had booked an Airbnb apartment in city centre Manchester on 12 December 2023, to cover the period of 18 – 27 February this year. He had booked it under the pretence of enjoying a relaxing weekend with his wife.

When turning up at the apartment on Sunday 18 February 2024, he was seen with two young females. As this was different to what he had told the owner, the police were called and the alarm raised.

When officers attended the location, Farodoye escaped via an upstairs window. The two females confirmed they were aged just 15 and 17. It was further disclosed to police that they had travelled across the UK to meet with Farodoye, under the pretence they were taking part in a photography shoot.

One of the victims described how she had first met with Farodoye at an address in Nottingham in October 2023, during which she was supplied with alcohol before photographs were taken of her. She was also subjected to the first sexual assault.

It was noted in court that when the officers attended at Turner Street, there was clear that photography equipment had been set up in various rooms, including lighting and backdrop screens. A search also revealed extensive amounts of sexualised underwear and clothing, quantity of cash and white powder in a bottle.

He later attempted to discard a backpack containing photography equipment, which was later recovered in Manchester city centre.

Farodoye was subsequently arrested for sexual activity with a child and was interviewed under caution at Pendleton Police Station on the evening of Wednesday 21 February 2024. He was also further arrested on suspicion of rape, breach of SHPO and Registered Sex Offender (RSO) requirements.

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A Bulwell man has been jailed after exchanging a series of explicit text messages with a vulnerable teenage girl.

William Howell, who began exchanging messages with the girl when she was only 13 years old, came to police attention when a report was made by the girl’s mother.

A forensic investigation of his mobile phone revealed multiple explicit messages sent over a prolonged period of time.

Howell, now aged 46, was well aware of the girl’s true age when the offences took place.

He later pleaded guilty to engaging in sexual communications with a child.

Appearing at Nottingham Crown Court on Friday, August 30, Howell, of Northall Avenue, Bulwell, was jailed for 11 months.

He was also made the subject of a sexual ham prevention order that will restrict his access to children and his online activities once he is released from prison.

Detective Constable Joanne Thompson, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: “Howell was well-aware this girl was nowhere close to the age of consent when he exchanged these messages.

“His actions were totally indefensible and have understandably had a significant impact on this girl and her family.

“I am pleased he has now been jailed and hope this sentence serves as a reminder to others about the potential consequences of this kind of behaviour.”

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A convicted sex offender who kept secret devices before selling them on has been jailed for repeatedly breaching his court order.

Harry Palmer, 22, was made the subject of a sexual harm prevention order when he was previously convicted of offences against a teenage girl.

The order, which had been amended as a result of a previous breach, gave police the power to monitor all his electronic devices and also prohibited him from having any contact with girls under the age of 18.

Detectives launched an investigation after learning from the probation service that Palmer had sold a MacBook laptop without gaining permission from the police.

Inquiries found he had sold a MacBook laptop, a Samsung tablet and a Huawei mobile phone to CEX stores in Coventry and Bulwell.

Nottingham Crown Court heard the items were sold for a combined sum of £142 across three separate dates in August 2023 – and that he’d kept the Samsung tablet and Huawei mobile phone a secret from the authorities.

When his address was searched, officers found four bank cards that also had not been registered with the police – again putting him in breach of the court order.

Palmer, formerly of Astral Grove, Hucknall, later admitted to three counts of breaching his sexual harm prevention order and four counts of failing to comply with notification requirements.

Appearing at Nottingham Crown Court on August 30, he was jailed for two years.

Palmer had only recently been released from prison on licence for previous breaches of the order and drugs offences.

Detective Constable Richard Johnson, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: “Safeguarding vulnerable young people is a key priority for Nottinghamshire Police and we take a very proactive approach to monitoring known offenders.

“These court orders are put in place for a very good reason and we expect them to be obeyed. When we find that they are being flouted so brazenly we will take swift action. As Palmer has just found out there the subsequent punishments can be very severe indeed.

“I hope this case serves as a reminder to other offenders about the potential consequences of attempting to deceive us, and also hope that members of the wider public will be reassured by our ongoing efforts to keep the public safe from harm.”

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A teacher who kissed a pupil in a school art cupboard before having sex with her in a hotel room has been locked up.

Sex offender Bradley Amphlett 'crossed a line' and kissed his student when she went to speak to him about her exam stress.

The 26-year-old soon started sending the girl 'explicit' messages and even asked her to call him 'daddy'. He would also 'fantasise' about their encounter within the art cupboard.

The pair later met up at a hotel room where they had sex. Nottingham Crown Court heard how Amphlett worked as an art and design teacher at Alvaston Moor, Derby.

He started 'flirting' with his victim when she was in her final years at the school, DerbyshireLive reports. Prosecutor Jonathon Dee said Amphlett's offending started during the last week of term.

The convict had given his phone number to the victim 'in case she needed emotional support'. Mr Dee added: "She said she had gone into his room to speak to him because she was stressed about exams.

"He got everyone out of the room and then went over to her. He hugged her and then turned her face up to his and kissed her.

"It is quite clear from what she said that he was shocked about this and knew he had crossed a line. The next day she had an exam but it was also the day that students were getting everyone to autograph a shirt.

"She asked him and he was initially distant but later, after the exam, she went back into his room and he kissed her again. Clearly by now any doubts he had were gone and in fact he told her to ask him to kiss her.

"She did and he took her into the art cupboard where no one could see them and kissed her again. She described this as more intense than the first kiss.

"By the Friday, she had left the school." The girl messaged Amphlett and then pair started 'communicating by text'.

Amphlett 'had clearly received a warning of some sort as safeguarding concerns had been raised about his relationship with her', the court heard. Mr Dee said: "The messages became more explicit.

"He was clearly encouraging her in this although she was responding in kind. He encouraged her to call him 'daddy' and engage in explicit 'sexting' and there are a whole series of very explicit messages where they are fantasising about sexual activity and what could have happened in the art cupboard.

"They arranged to meet up for the day in Nottingham with a hotel room booked so that they could have sex. They met up around 11am on the Saturday, they did not text again until 5.30pm the following day by which time they were both saying how fantastic the weekend had been."

Amphlett was arrested once police were informed. He gave a prepared statement to officers, denying the offence.

Dan Scothern, defending, handed the court a number of character references in support of the defendant. Amphlett, of Cordy Lane, Brinsley, Nottinghamshire, admitted meeting a child following sexual grooming, sexual activity with a child and causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual communication.

He was jailed for three years and eight months. Sian Hampton, chief executive of Archway Learning Trust, said: "On behalf of Archway Learning Trust and everybody at Alvaston Moor Academy, we are pleased to hear that justice has been served today.

"Given the very serious nature of the crime, we appreciate that this will cause shockwaves in our community, and all our colleagues are on hand for any students who may need some support."