NHS RADIOGRAPHER WHO THOUGHT HE WAS GROOMING A 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL ONLINE IS MET BY PAEDOPHILE HUNTERS OUTSIDE SCHOOL WHERE HE ARRANGED TO MEET HER
An NHS radiographer who groomed a 12-year-old girl into meeting him outside a school was snared by a group of paedophile hunters posing as children online.Father-of-three Vinod Ramachandran, 41, arrived with two chocolate bars for his victim, who he had shared 'sexualised messages' with and begged 'not to inform the police'.
He arranged to meet the child outside Open Academy, a secondary school in Norwich, but was instead met by several men from the vigilante anti-paedophile group who held him until police arrived.
Ramachandran was jailed for two years yesterday after admitting attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child, attempting to cause or incite a female under 13 to engage in sexual activity, arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sexual offence, and admitting to being an adult attempting to meet a girl under 16 following grooming.
Judge Katharine Moore said the defendant was 'committed' to the offending as a result of his 'sexual interest in young girls'.
Ramachandran had arranged to meet the child outside Open Academy (pictured) The radiographer sent pictures to someone they believed was a child which 'showed his face and that he was wearing his NHS uniform'.
He 'became quite lonely' while shuttling between jobs as a diagnostic radiographer in Norwich and Ipswich, where he lives, and 'doesn't have any friends', which is why he began communicating with people online.
Mr Clare added Ramachandran was 'ashamed and desperately sorry for what he had done', causing 'untold damage' to his family life and 'wrecked his career'.
The defendant, who is likely to be struck off when a Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service fitness to practise panel hears his case, was made the subject of a ten-year sexual harm prevention order and placed on the sex offenders register for the same period of time.
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The radiographer sent pictures to someone they believed was a child which 'showed his face and that he was wearing his NHS uniform'
