Another Paedophile Metropolitan Police officer, Mark Collins, from Fleet, Hampshire, who attempted to transmit “highly sexualised” messages to an individual he believed to be a 13-year-old girl, has been incarcerated during an undercover operation.
Detective Constable Mark Collins, 58, confessed to one charge of attempting to induce a minor to participate in sexual activity and six charges of attempting to engage in sexual communications with a minor.
Mark Collins has been incarcerated for over two years.
The Old Bailey was informed that Mark Collins, from Fleet, Hampshire, believed he was communicating with a 13-year-old girl when he transmitted images of his genitals using the Kik Messenger app during his vacation in Malta.
He remarked on her “body developing” and discussed “naughty urges” and “being horny” in November 2019, indicating that these talks should be expunged.
Mark Collins, who joined the police force in 1991, was talking with an undercover investigator and was detained at Bromley police station on November 26.
The court acknowledged that several communications were dispatched during Mark Collins’s scheduled shifts; nevertheless, prosecutor David Povall stated that this could not be established to the requisite criminal level.
On Friday, Judge Mark Lucraft QC sentenced him to two years and four months in prison, characterising the texts as “highly sexualised in nature.”
The judge informed Mark Collins, “It is evident that numerous messages you transmitted are explicit, delineating your fantasies and sexual desires regarding her unclothed form.”
The content and tone unequivocally indicate that the texts were transmitted to achieve sexual fulfilment.
Mark Collins, who resigned from the Metropolitan Police following his arrest, was determined to have engaged in gross misconduct during a disciplinary hearing last week, and the force stated he would have been terminated had he remained been an active officer.
Karen Robinson, in defence, stated that the father of two’s offences bore “no relation to his position or responsibilities as a police officer.”
“For an individual in his position, it constitutes a remarkable decline in reputation,” she stated.
“He must endure the shame and indignity that his actions have inflicted upon himself and others.”
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