A man who travelled more than 100 miles to try to meet someone he thought was a teenage girl for sex in Crawley has been given a three year prison sentence.

53 year old Nigel McDermott, from Wiltshire was sentenced at Hove Crown Court last Tuesday, having pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to facilitating a child sexual offence.

Communications devices were seized when Sussex Police Paedophile Online Investigation Team  arrested McDermott in a car park at Tilgate Park in February.

Enquiries have confirmed that no child was at risk.

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