A CONVICTED child rapist has been locked up for four years after attempting to meet a 13-year-old girl for sex just seven months after his release from a 12 year prison sentence.

Judge Jonathan Rose today agreed with a probation officer and a psychiatrist that Daniel Schofield was a high risk of causing serious harm to children and gave him an 11 year extended sentence.

Schofield, 33, of Lynfield Drive, Heaton, Bradford, was jailed on a video link to HMP Leeds after being recalled to prison until June, 2026.

The new sentence is made up of a four-year custodial term with a seven-year extended licence period.

Prosecutor Rebecca Young said Schofield was released from prison in June last year and by January he was messaging an undercover police officer posing as “Grace” aged 13.

He soon began including sexual messages in the online chat, saying her body was “just perfect” and he wanted to see it.

Schofield then sent a photo of an erect penis and asked for pictures of Grace in her underwear.

On January 12, he travelled from Bradford to Manchester to meet what he thought was a 13-year-old girl to have sex with her.

He was arrested and made no comment in his police interview.

Schofield pleaded guilty at the magistrates’ court to attempting to meet a girl aged 13 with the intention of committing a sexual offence.

In August, 2014, he was jailed for 12 years at Bradford Crown Court after getting two teenage schoolgirls drunk and attacking them at a house party.

He was convicted by a jury of two offences of rape, one of attempted rape, sexual activity with a child and causing a child to engage in sexual activity.

The court heard that he repeatedly raped and sexually molested a vulnerable child and bit her friend so hard on the breast that he caused her actual bodily harm.

Today, Schofield’s solicitor advocate, Saf Salam, said that Grace was a police decoy so no real child had been involved in the latest offending.

Schofield had now admitted to having a sexual interest in underage girls.

His inhibitions were lowered by alcohol and taking prescription drugs obtained on the black market.

After his release from prison he was isolated, unemployed and had no money or friends.

He had drunk alcohol on the day he travelled to Manchester intending to meet the girl.

Judge Rose said Schofield had been out of jail for just seven months when he messaged what he thought was a child of 13.

His chat soon became overtly sexual and within a week he was travelling to meet her.

“You are a man incapable of controlling your sexual drive towards young girls,” Judge Rose said.

Six years in jail had not cured his “paedophilic intent” to them.

“You are a dangerous man and your prison sentence has done nothing to deter your deviant sexual interest in young girls,” Judge Rose said.

Schofield must sign on the sex offender register for life and a Sexual Harm Prevention Order is in place without limit of time.