'DISGUSTING' PAEDOPHILE LIVING NEAR PERSHORE JAILED
A "DISGUSTING" paedophile who was caught with an envelope full of girls' underwear has been jailed.Christopher Webb, of Tilesford near Pershore, was found guilty of causing/inciting a child to engage in sexual activity with penetration, attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child and attempting to meet a girl under 16 years of age following grooming.
The 38-year-old was sentenced to four-and-a-half years at Worcester Crown Court on Friday (April 24) after being snared by undercover West Mercia Police officers in March 2025.
Webb had been communicating with and grooming what he believed to be a 12-year-old girl on Snapchat before moving the ‘conversation’ onto WhatsApp.
He sent explicit images of himself to the chat and asked for similar images from the 12-year-old child profile.
He was then arrested at Gloucester Train Station on 26 March 2025 after believing he had arranged to meet up with the girl to have sex with her.
On his arrest, Webb had a black bag which contained an envelope full of girls’ underwear with his home address on it.
Further phone searches confirmed his Snapchat account profile and web searches including ‘do under 16s need a train ticket’, confirming he knew his intended victim was underage.
Detective Constable Rich Britton, from West Mercia’s online child sexual exploitation team (OCSET), said: “We are pleased to put this paedophile behind bars before he could carry out any of his disgusting intentions on an actual child, so this operation was a good result to protect potential victims from his depraved behaviour.
“Webb was caught red-handed, thinking he was speaking online to a girl, and we would warn any other individuals thinking of communicating with a child and attempting to arrange sexual activity like this to be warned that it could be the police, and you too could be sent to prison.” Webb was sentenced to four years and six months for the first offence, ten months concurrently and a £228 victim surcharge for the second offence, and two years, three months concurrently for the third offence.
He was ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register with the police indefinitely and given a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) lasting ten years.
