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Paedophile who posed as 11-year-old online was actually talking to another child sex offender

Jonathan Wales masqueraded as a child and began talking to Simon Riley, who was also pretending to be underage

Jonathan Wales (Photo: SWNS)
Jonathan Wales (Photo: SWNS)

A sex offender who pretended to be an 11-year-old girl online was actually talking to another paedophile also pretending to be underage.

Jonathan Wales, 41, masqueraded as a child and began talking to Simon Riley, 21, who is currently serving 12 years in the US for counts including sexually exploiting a minor.

Sick Wales, who had been convicted of making and distributing indecent images of children and given an indefinite sexual harm prevention order, was discovered after Riley’s computers were seized by British authorities in September 2015.

Believing a child was at risk, National Crime Agency officers investigated and found Wales was using the fake profile.

At the same time the NCA began receiving reports from the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children in North Dakota of indecent images of children being uploaded from an IP address in the Kensington area of London.

Between May 28 and November 29 2015 Wales – using an email account in the name Robert Dawes – shared 11 moving images of abuse on two websites, with six at the most serious level.

In July this year Wales was arrested at his home and on Friday, he pleaded guilty at Isleworth Crown Court to three counts of making indecent images of children and one of breaching a sexual harm prevention order.

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