A sick predator tried to meet a 12-year-old at a shopping centre and told her to say she was his niece
if they encountered anyone they knew.
Ian Cook, prosecuting, said: "He said he would buy gifts for her and she should not let her family know about the conversation and he arranged to meet her at the Metrocentre. He said if they saw anyone they knew they should say they were uncle and niece. Hancock was sentenced to eight months suspended for two years with a four-month curfew after he pleaded guilty at the court to attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child,
"You did so in a way which has the hallmarks of a predator, frankly. You slowly, over a period of time, gained that child's trust by talking in a non-sexual way, offering to take her out and buy her gifts, then slowly but surely you introduced a sexual element to the conversation.
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