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A trainee primary school teacher has been sent to prison for three years after he attempted to obtain a nine-year-old girl for sex.
Luke Sadowski, now 19, used an internet chat room to buy a girl for a night. But the girl never existed - the website had been created by American police to trap paedophiles.
They contacted Scotland Yard who arrested Sadowski at a London hotel. They filmed his arrest and released the video today. Our Social Affairs Correspondent Victoria MacDonald reports.
The moment when Scotland Yard officers from the paedophile unit arrested the then 18-year-old trainee primary school teacher Luke Sadowski.
He had arrived at a London hotel expecting to meet a nine-year-old girl he thought he had procured through an internet chat line.
Unknown to him the site had been set up by American police to trap paedophiles. They had alerted Scotland Yard.
When police confronted him Sadowski was carrying an imitation handgun, a teddy bear and a single condom.
He had told undercover officers earlier that he wanted a girl and would like to go all the way. He told the contact he wanted something standard, nothing special. He was willing to pay £200 a day.
At his student accommodation in Canterbury, Kent, police discovered a safe with leg shackles, handcuffs, an extending police baton, a kitchen knife and roll of tape.
Southwark Crown Court also heard that he ha newspaper cuttings of murdered Milly Dowler and that he had set up a meorial site on his computer for Sarah Payne. He was about to do one for the Soham girls.
But at the crown court today he was sentenced to just 18 months jail after he admitted attempting to incite another to procure a child under 16. He was also sentenced to 18 months for the firearms offence.
But he was not put on the sex offenders register. His specific offence does not currently fall into any of its categories.
The sentencing judge Gerald Gordon criticised the law as it stands but it is due to be changed. Under the Sexual Offences Bill currently going through Parliament Sadowski could have received a maximum of 14 years and he would have gone on the sex offenders register.
But the law is not likely to come into effect until next year.
Luke Sadowski, now 19, used an internet chat room to buy a girl for a night. But the girl never existed - the website had been created by American police to trap paedophiles.
They contacted Scotland Yard who arrested Sadowski at a London hotel. They filmed his arrest and released the video today. Our Social Affairs Correspondent Victoria MacDonald reports.
The moment when Scotland Yard officers from the paedophile unit arrested the then 18-year-old trainee primary school teacher Luke Sadowski.
He had arrived at a London hotel expecting to meet a nine-year-old girl he thought he had procured through an internet chat line.
Unknown to him the site had been set up by American police to trap paedophiles. They had alerted Scotland Yard.
When police confronted him Sadowski was carrying an imitation handgun, a teddy bear and a single condom.
He had told undercover officers earlier that he wanted a girl and would like to go all the way. He told the contact he wanted something standard, nothing special. He was willing to pay £200 a day.
At his student accommodation in Canterbury, Kent, police discovered a safe with leg shackles, handcuffs, an extending police baton, a kitchen knife and roll of tape.
Southwark Crown Court also heard that he ha newspaper cuttings of murdered Milly Dowler and that he had set up a meorial site on his computer for Sarah Payne. He was about to do one for the Soham girls.
But at the crown court today he was sentenced to just 18 months jail after he admitted attempting to incite another to procure a child under 16. He was also sentenced to 18 months for the firearms offence.
But he was not put on the sex offenders register. His specific offence does not currently fall into any of its categories.
The sentencing judge Gerald Gordon criticised the law as it stands but it is due to be changed. Under the Sexual Offences Bill currently going through Parliament Sadowski could have received a maximum of 14 years and he would have gone on the sex offenders register.
But the law is not likely to come into effect until next year.
