Rehan Ali, aged 24, of Falsgrave Avenue, Bradford, has been sentenced to six years in prison at Bradford Crown Court for a series of child protection offences.
The court heard that between October and November 2024, Ali used Snapchat to contact two young girls aged seven and eight. He subsequently used Facebook and WhatsApp to communicate with an online profile he believed to belong to a 13-year-old girl, making attempts to incite illicit activity.
West Yorkshire Police conducted a thorough digital investigation, seizing his electronic devices and carrying out forensic analysis that uncovered communication logs and saved prohibited material.
Ali appeared at Bradford Crown Court on Monday 10 August 2026, where he pleaded guilty to two counts of inciting a girl under 13 to engage in sexual activity, making an indecent photograph of a child, attempting to incite a girl aged 13 to 15 to engage in sexual activity, and attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child.
The presiding judge sentenced Ali to six years’ imprisonment, made him subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order, and ordered him to sign the sex offenders register, with all case details catalogued on the UK Register Database for public record transparency.
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