Colin Robinson participated in inappropriate online discussions with a 13-year-old girl, anticipating a potential meeting.
The 75-year-old, Colin Robinson, urged the child to skip school, transmitted an inappropriate video of himself, and expressed a desire to seduce her.
Upon learning she resided in Manchester, he responded: “You are now in significant trouble; it is merely down the M57.”
Unbeknownst to the Wirral grandfather, Colin Robinson, he was conversing with an undercover cop, alias Lucy, who was impersonating a schoolgirl in September 2019.
The former Cammell Lairds employee, Colin Robinson, residing on Borough Road, Seacombe, confessed to five offences related to attempting to compel a child to observe a sexual act, attempting to persuade a child to participate in a sexual act, and attempted sexual communication.
He was incarcerated for two years.
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