A PAEDOPHILE who told a 14-year-old girl to wear her school uniform when she travelled to Bradford to meet up for sex has been jailed for four years.

David Brown, 26, chatted to two children on Kick Messenger, persuading them to send him indecent photos of themselves, Bradford Crown Court heard.

Brown, of Newcastle House, Barkerend Road, Bradford, pleaded guilty to causing the 14-year-old girl to engage in sexual activity and inciting her to engage in sexual activity, on November 9 last year.

Later that same evening, he contacted a girl aged 15 “badgering” her for a naked photo and then sending 15 more messages asking where the picture was. He pleaded guilty to causing a child to engage in sexual activity in relation to that messaging.

When he was arrested on November 26, the police found three indecent images of children on Brown’s phone, prosecutor Camille Morland told the court. He admitted being in possession of a Category B movie of a child and a Category B and C photo.

In August, 2015, Brown was sentenced to a three year community order for 12 offences of possession of indecent images of children and intimidating a witness in a rape investigation that was later dropped. He was made the subject of a five year Sexual Harm Prevention Order and ordered to sign on the sex offenders’ register.

Miss Morland said Brown looked up train times for the 14-year-old girl to travel from her home in South Wales to meet up with him for sex. He told her to wear sexy clothes and bring her school uniform, later suggesting that she wear it so he could “take her out of it.”

Her parents intervened, telling Brown the police had been informed.

Brown’s solicitor advocate, Tahir Hanif, said he had begun living alone after suffering family difficulties. After he was sentenced in August 2015, there was no place available for him on the sex offenders’ treatment programme. Brown was supported by his family, who were devastated that he had let them down by reoffending.

The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Roger Thomas QC, said the Kick Messenger phone conversations were “disgusting and disgraceful.”

Brown was ordered to sign on the sex offenders’ register for life and the judge made a Sexual Harm Prevention Order without limit of time.