A man who met a 14-year-old girl for sex sessions while she played truant from school has been jailed for 18 months.

Waqar Ahmed, 30, began an affair with the teenager in the summer holidays and continued to see her when she should have been in lessons when the new term began, Bradford Crown Court heard.

Ahmed, who has moved from an address in Bradford to Lincoln Street, Oldham, pleaded guilty to five offences of sexual activity with a child in August and September, 2010.

Prosecutor Hilary Manley told the court yesterday the police were called by the girl’s school.

Ahmed told investigating officers he thought she was 16.

She would go to his house with another girl and a boy, and he had sex with her upstairs.

The teenager thought this had happened about 12 times.

Judge Peter Benson was shown Facebook pictures of the girl who believed she was in a relationship with Ahmed.

Simon Myers, barrister for Ahmed, said he had since married and his wife was in court to support him.

He pleaded guilty on the day he was set to stand trial and the offences dated back 18 months.

Judge Benson said Ahmed was 29 at the time, 15 years older than the schoolgirl.

“It must have been obvious to you that she was a young girl and it was your responsibility, as someone quite significantly older, to take steps to find out how old she was,” he told him.

Ahmed, who had no previous convictions, had sex with the girl when she was playing truant from school.

“Young girls of 14 need protection from people in their late twenties who want to have a sexual affair with them,” Judge Benson said.

He made an indefinite Sexual Offences Prevention Order banning Ahmed from having any contact with the girl and from any unsupervised contact with children, unless their parents are present.

He was ordered to sign on the sex offenders’ register for ten years.