City man who took part in sex acts with underage girl in a park jailed

[dutchman]

A city man who took part in sex acts in a park and at his brother’s home with an under-age girl he had met through an internet chatroom ten years ago has finally been jailed.



Michael Connor had even sent the girl a sex toy for her to use while he watched her over the internet before meeting her, a jury at Warwick Crown Court has heard.

Connor (41) of Wyken Way, Coventry, pleaded not guilty to seven charges of inciting the girl to engage in sexual activity and four charges of sexual activity with a child.

Prosecutor Matthew Barnes explained that the first seven charges related to acts Connor had got the girl to perform in front of her computer while he watched, while the other charges reflected acts which took place between them after they met up.

Connor said that during their internet activity he had believed the girl to be 17 – which was accepted by the jury who found him not guilty of those charges.

But they rejected his claims that no sexual acts had taken place between them after they met and he realised she was younger than he claimed she had told him.

And Connor was jailed for six years after the jury found him guilty of all four charges of sexual activity with the girl knowing she was under-age.

Jailing Connor, Recorder Adrian Redgrave QC also ordered him to register as a sex offender for life and made him subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for ten years.