Thomas Smith 29

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A man who tried to meet a 13-year-old girl at Bexleyheath Station is back behind bars after police discovered he had stayed in a home where a minor resides. 

Thomas Smith, 29, of Oakhurst Avenue in Bexleyheath, was sentenced to two years in prison last March. 

He has since been released but on Thursday, May 1, he was sent back to prison for five weeks for failing to comply with sex offenders register notification requirements. 

Smith admitted having resided or stayed for at least 12 hours in a household where an under 19 resides and he failed to notify police. 

Last year Woolwich Crown Court heard how Smith had sent sexual messages and a photo of his penis to what he thought was a young girl over the court of a month. 

But when he turned up at the station to meet her he was greeted by a team of paedophile hunters who detained him and live streamed his arrest on Facebook.