Barry Wiley 56

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A paedophile said he'd travel 40 miles to have sex with a 13-year-old girl in her mother's bed.

Barry Wiley bombarded a person he thought was a child called "Maddison" with sick texts and naked photos.

The 53-year-old offered to pay for the girl's train fare to Liverpool, then said he'd travel to her home in Rochdale while her mum was out, despite the fact Maddison told him she was "scared".

But the pervert was actually talking to a retired teacher acting as a decoy for paedophile hunter group Elusive Child Protection Unit.

Liverpool Crown Court heard Wiley, of Dacy Road, Everton, was caught out last year.

The woman placed the fictional profile on social network Hi5 and its sister app Tagged, with a photo of herself, manipulated to appear childlike.

Frank Dillon, prosecuting, said Wiley - using the profile name "TheQuietMan69" - started talking to her on June 30, 2020, when she said she was 13 and didn't have a lot of friends.

She asked Wiley if he was a teacher on July 1, when he replied: "Couldnt be a teacher wouldn't be able to focus."

The next day he talked about drink making him "horny", discussed sex, disclosed his name and offered to cook, take her shopping and buy her food and clothes.

On July 5, after asking her to download Kik Messenger, he asked Maddison to download Hangouts and give him her email address.

The next day he said "I really like you though sexually" and told her he'd like to have sex with her.

Mr Dillon said he sent her "highly sexual" messages and on July 8 told her he wanted to "make love to her for hours".

The court heard Wiley sent her a photo of a man in underwear and an explicit image which he said was of himself.

He told her he was going for a bath before she received a photo of a man in a bath holding his private parts.

Wiley said he wanted sex with her, despite her saying she would be "scared", then sent a photo of two adults having sex and a picture of female genitalia.

Mr Dillon said Wiley tried to arrange meeting Maddison in Liverpool on July 26 last year and offered to pay her train fare, before he again sent a photo of a man holding his private parts and said it was him.

Mr Dillon said: "The previously arranged meeting was re-arranged, whereby the defendant would travel to Rochdale and meet with Maddison so he could go to her house and have sexual intercourse with her in her mother's bed."

The Elusive Child Protection Unit found Wiley at a snooker club in Liverpool on July 25, when police were called and he was arrested.

Wiley gave a no comment interview, but in May this year admitted attempted sexual communication with a child, attempting to cause a child to look at sexual activity and attempting to arrange a child sex offence, namely sexual activity with a child.

That would have entitled him to a 25% reduction in his sentence, but he then tried to withdraw his guilty plea, which was refused following a hearing, meaning he only received 15%.

Kevin Jones, defending, said Wiley had been suffering from mental health problems and physical issues relating to diabetes at the time.

He said despite his denial of any sexual motivation and the offences, his client expressed a willingness to undertake any courses suggested for him, which he argued meant there was a realistic prospect of rehabilitation.

The lawyer said the incident came off the back of a difficult mental health period for Wiley, after the breakdown of his relationship with older children and also children from another relationship, which he described as "destructive".

Mr Jones suggested "he was making a decision to do this as a cry for help".

Judge Louise Brandon said in a pre-sentence report Wiley denied the photos were of his penis, but in the chats he told Maddison they were.

She said he told Maddison he wanted sex with her, adding: "She told you she was scared to do that, but that didn't put you off."

The judge said he tried to facilitate a meeting in Liverpool, then rearranged it for her home, when told her mum would be out.

She said he didn't "finalise" those arrangements, but that was because he was arrested the day beforehand.

Judge Brandon said: "You were, by virtue of your guilty plea, attempting to arrange the meeting by which you would have had sex with a 13-year-old child."

She said he continued to deny the offences and an explanation he put forward in a pre-sentence report was "properly described" by the author as "outlandish and implausible".

Judge Brandon said: "You're a man who is clearly in denial of what and who you really are."

The judge said he "bombarded" Maddison with sexual messages for his sexual gratification, had "no insight" into the harm he would have caused her if she was real, and his remorse was only for the position he was now in.

Judge Brandon found there wasn't a reasonable prospect of rehabilitation because of his "continuing denials".

Jailing him for three years and nine months, and ordering him to sign on the Sex Offenders Register and comply with a Sexual Harm Prevention Order indefinitely, she said: "I conclude you pose a danger to children."