He spoke about 'sex in the car' and thought he was meeting a 14 year-old girl called Emma
14.11.2023 - 07:57
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A married father-of-three turned up to meet someone he believed was an 'innocent, vulnerable' 14 year-old girl he had incited to engage in sexual activity, a court heard.
But Zaheer Khan, a 53-year-old with no previous convictions, was caught out as it was a decoy posing as a fictitious teenager called 'Emma' he had been exchanging messages with online, a judge was told. Khan, who admitted two charges he faced, has now been jailed for what the judge called 'a persistent attempt to incite this person to engage in penetrative sexual intercourse'.
One message he sent her, Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court was told, suggested they 'hold hands and kiss', before he went on to suggest they have sex. Khan also tried to get the 'girl' to send him photographs of her genitals, the court heard.
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Hayley Bennett, prosecuting, said a Facebook profile of a teenage girl was created by an 'independent online child protection unit' called 'Sacred Souls'. Khan, a former security guard of Briarfield Road, Withington, Manchester, sent the profile a number of messages, the court heard.
The decoy controlling the account 'made it clear at the beginning that the child was 14', said Ms Bennett, a fact she added Khan acknowledged. She said he arranged to meet 'Emma' believing he would be meeting a 14 year-old girl.
Ms Bennett said he sent a photograph via Facebook Messenger of his car, then a photo of himself, so she would know what he looked like. The 'meeting' was arranged for a car park near a Tesco store in Cheadle on