REPEAT PAEDOPHILE JAILED FOR GROOMING TEEN FOR SEX AND SENDING EXPLICIT PHOTOS
A repeat sex offender offered to pay a 'teenage girl' £300 for sex and has now been jailed.Zacharie Hall, 31, had previously been locked up for sexual offences when he was 19 and last year he befriended a "girl" called Tilly, who was really a paedophile hunter.
As well as urging her to meet him for sex, Hall sent the "girl" an explicit photograph of his genitals and urged her to perform sexual acts on herself.
He also told her it was normal for girls of her age to have sex.
Hall, of Bishop Road, Castle Donington, pleaded guilty to three sex offences of inciting a girl under 16 to engage in sexual activity.
The chats all happened over 18 days in January last year.
At Leicester Crown Court on Thursday, April 2, he appeared for sentencing.
The court heard that in 2013, when he was 18, he had been given 16 weeks' youth custody for a sexual offence against a girl under 16 and also had a later conviction for dealing cannabis.
James Varley, prosecuting, said that after "Tilly" accepted Hall as a Facebook friend he replied "thanks for adding me, beautiful".
Mr Varley added: "Almost immediately, the messages between them were sexual." He said Hall discussed "taking her virginity" and having alcohol and drugs with her.
On one occasion he said he'd pay for a taxi if she sneaked out of her parents' home and even offered her £300 to visit him for sex.
Mr Varley said: "He was extremely explicit about what he wanted to do to her." In one message, urging her to visit, he told her: "Don't bring any clothes - you won't be needing them." James Bide-Thomas, representing Hall, said his client had a string of mental health problems including anxiety, depression, schizophrenia and emotionally unstable personality disorder, as well as various health problems.
Judge Philip Head, sentencing Hall, told him: "You made it clear your intention was to have sexual intercourse with her.
"You offered her £300 to meet.
You told her to come to your house and talked about videoing the two of you having sex together." After pleading guilty, Hall had been interviewed by the Probation Service and the judge, who had read the pre-sentence report that was produced, said that Hall's "attitude was really concerning" and that he was "minimising" his offending.
As well as a sentence of four years and eight months, Hall was given an extended licence period of a further four years and four months during which he will be under close supervision and at risk of being sent back to prison throughout that period after his release.
Hall will serve the first two thirds of the jail sentence behind bars, after which he will only be released if a parole board believes he is no longer a risk.
He will only be automatically released after the sentence of four years and eight months is up.
Hall is also subject to an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order and will have to sign the sex offenders register for the rest of his life.
