A former police officer has pleaded guilty to sex offences after he was confronted by paedophile hunters outside his home.
Christopher Sheldrick, 56, was arrested on September 29 after being approached by a member of The Ghosts Online Child Protection Team.
Sheldrick, of Gorleston, Norfolk, was then charged with engaging in sexual communication with a child.
He was also charged with attempting to breach a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and failing to comply with notification requirements of the sex offender register.
He was remanded and appeared at Norwich Magistrates' Court on October 5 where he pleaded guilty to all three offences.
Christopher Sheldrick, 56, was arrested on September 29 after being approached by a member of The Ghosts Online Child Protection Team.
Sheldrick, of Gorleston, Norfolk, was then charged with engaging in sexual communication with a child.
He was also charged with attempting to breach a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and failing to comply with notification requirements of the sex offender register.
He was remanded and appeared at Norwich Magistrates' Court on October 5 where he pleaded guilty to all three offences.
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00:00My name's Luke from the Online Child Protection Team. We've been monitoring your online activity.
00:06Can you remember this profile here?
00:10Yeah. And can you remember this person here?
00:18No. Right, well, don't let them in.
00:22Christopher, you send her a first message saying, hey, how are you?
00:24And the child replied to you saying she's 14, non-copyrighted. Remember this conversation?
00:32No.
00:37You took her over to WhatsApp very quick when you asked for her number.
00:42Is that you, Christopher? Yeah.
00:44Is that you with your tongue out? Yeah.
00:46So, have you been a police officer? You're a former police officer?
00:49Yeah. Yeah.
00:50So, Christopher, a former police officer, you know we have to go on evidential stuff,
00:53which is a live image. That is a live image because we instructed you to put your tongue out,
00:57correct? How long have you been out the police force?
01:01Right, okay. So, then you took her straight over to WhatsApp
01:05and sent the first message. So, I've been a police officer. You understand that no
01:09entrapment's been made there, correct? Yeah.
01:11Super. So, then you took her over to here. She says, who's this? You said I was just
01:16speaking to you on the name of the app. I'm not going to name it. What does she say again there?
01:21What's her age? 14.
01:2214. So, this is the image you initially sent and then I told you I didn't believe that was you.
01:32So, Christopher, you've been a police officer. You've been a police officer. You said you have
01:36a really hairy face. I said you have a really hairy face. You said if you're a good girl,
01:41I'll bring you some presents. Do you know this child?
01:44What's the age of consent in the UK? 16.
01:48So, she says, what's that? You said my cock. The child replies like a chicken. You said no.
01:55You know what I mean. You said your penis. You then instructed her. You sent her a link,
02:02didn't you? Yeah.
02:04What was that link to, Chris? A porn site. Why were you so eager to set this child
02:10to go onto a porn site and see graphic sexual stuff?
02:16Pornographic stuff, which is 18 plus. And why is it 18 plus, Chris?
02:21Exactly. Do you know what's more frustrating? It's obviously, why did you leave the police force?
02:31I complained about it a lot. Do you know what it does to children?
02:38If that child was to click that link, what would you have done?
02:46What would have happened? Would it have scarred them? Would they have enjoyed it?
02:52You did nine months in prison. Have you got a sexual harm prevention law?
02:56How long you on that for? And when does it finish?
03:01So, when did you get released? So, you got released November last year.
03:07And you want to turn your sexual harm prevention order on the sex offender register?
03:10How long for? And that's regarding real children, isn't it?
03:15So, you've already took away children's innocence and you weren't going to stop, were you?
03:19Are you sexually attracted to children?
03:24You've been in the army as well, haven't you? Yeah. And you've been in the army,
03:28you've been in the police, and then you've turned to this. Why? We just couldn't understand.
03:34You've had all that authority and you've just tossed it all away for a child.
03:41Do you want to stop doing it? Yeah.