A DISGRACED former Bradford City player has been jailed for three and a half years for child sex offences.

Tyrell Robinson, 23, pleaded guilty to a sex offence against a 14-year-old girl.

Robinson admitted engaging in sexual activity with a child, making an indecent image of a child and distributing an indecent image of a child.

Robinson, from South Ockendon, Essex, admitted engaging in sexual activity with the teenager in Bradford in August 2018.

He also entered a guilty plea to making and distributing an indecent image of a child via Snapchat which he saved and sent to con-defendant Korie Berman on the same date.

The winger was sacked by Bradford City for gross misconduct in February last year after he was charged by police in February. He scored three goals in 23 appearances for the Bantams between 2017 and 2020. He was also a former youth team player with Arsenal.

Sentencing Robinson, the Recorder of Bradford, Judge Richard Mansell QC said Robinson he had put his own sexual gratification first and entered into grooming behaviour with the girls.

Robinson denied a further charge of distributing an indecent photograph of a child in December 2017, and the court heard the prosecution will not proceed with this count.

A second defendant, Korie Berman, from Essex, who has pleaded guilty to five charges of engaging in penetrative sexual activity with a child, was jailed for six years.

Bothe Robinson and Berman were told they will serve half of their respective sentences and then released on licence.