Charges:

He told her it was a “big risk” for him because of her age.

Tony Cornberg, defending, said Tilbury ended up “completely out of his depth” feeling regret, shame and embarrassment.

He said: “He in fact cuts a rather feeble, perhaps pitiful and lonely figure.”

Tilbury was jailed for two years and three months.

He was also given a sexual harm prevention order banning unsupervised contact with children and regulating his use of the internet and devices, and will be on the sex offenders’ register, both for 10 years.

SOURCE: Gazette