A convicted Diss Paedophile sex offender, Barrie Williams told an undercover police officer he wanted her to give him oral sex, thinking she was a 12-year-old girl, a court has heard.
Norwich Crown Court heard Barrie Williams, who had previous convictions for child sex offences, made sexual remarks to the officer, talking about her giving him oral sex, and taking graphically about what it would be like to have sex with her.
Richard Paterson, prosecuting, said in the conversations, carried out on social media platforms, including SnapChat, between August 2024 and November 2024, the officer clearly stated her purported age was 12.
Barrie Williams, who has three previous convictions for 24 offences, including making indecent images of children, appeared in court, sitting at Whitefriars, on Friday.
Jailing Barrie Williams for 45 months Judge David Pugh said although the victim in this case was an adult decoy the defendant “posed a high risk of harm to female children”.
Barrie Williams was also made the subject of an indefinite SHPO and put on the sex offenders’ register, also indefinitely.
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