A paedophile has been jailed after arranging to meet up with a teenage girl at a service station.

Paedophile Jailed for Attempting to Meet Teenage Girl

A paedophile has been jailed after arranging to meet up with a teenage girl at a service station. However, Daniel Salisbury's victim was actually a police officer.

The 31-year-old, of Rotary Gardens, Gillingham, turned up at Cobham Services on November 16, where officers from the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU) apprehended him.

Salisbury was found guilty of arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence at Guildford Crown Court on Wednesday. He was also found to be in breach of a sexual harm prevention order and sentenced to 16 months imprisonment to run concurrently.

The order had been imposed after he was found in possession of indecent images of children in 2014. Salisbury was placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely and was subject to a further sexual harm prevention order to run in line with his registration period.

Detective Inspector Emily Evans of SEROCU said: "This investigation forms part of our continued priority to protect children from sexual exploitation from those who seek to do them harm. The sentence reflects the seriousness of the offences Daniel Salisbury had attempted to commit."