Paedophile asked boy, 14, for school uniform pics

James Brooking, 30, was jailed for eight years at Cambridge Crown Court

A "highly sexualised" paedophile who made sexual advances to what he thought was a 14-year-old boy has been jailed for eight years.

James Brooking, 30, was speaking to an undercover officer on the social media platform Fabguys in July when he asked the decoy for their mobile phone number.

Brooking then requested inappropriate photos, asked to see the boy in his school uniform, turned the conversation sexual, asked to meet up and sent images of himself.

On 24 October, at Cambridge Crown Court, Brooking, from Ramsey, was jailed having pleaded guilty to attempted sexual communication with a child and four counts of failing to comply with sex offender register notification requirements.

Brooking was previously convicted in 2014 of child sex offences and given specific requirements to alert police of new online usernames and to notify police if he was staying at an address for 12 hours or more where a child lived. Brooking had failed to do this.

Judge Andrew Hurst described Brooking's offending as "highly sexualised" and said he was "out of control" with his urges.

He added that he had "learnt nothing" from his previous conviction and did not have "the courage or conviction to acknowledge" he had an interest in children.

PC Emily Heriot, who investigated, said: "Brooking displayed a disguised compliance to his requirements, but the truth has caught up with him.

"We will do everything we can do to put those who intend to harm children in front of the courts so they can face justice."