A Viagra-carrying pensioner who groomed someone he believed was a 14-year-old girl before travelling to meet her has been jailed.
Stephen Greaves spent weeks sending vile and sexually explicit messages ahead of the planned encounter.
The 74-year-old even sent a photograph of his genitals over WhatsApp before turning up at Sheffield railway station.
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But instead of meeting the teenager, Greaves was intercepted by a paedophile hunter group, as reported by Need To Know.
The group alerted British Transport Police, who arrested him at the station.
Officers discovered a blister pack of Viagra on him.
A forensic examination of Greaves’ phone subsequently uncovered hundreds of messages between him and the person he believed was a teenage girl.
Detectives also found conversations with other girls he thought were underage.
Child sexual abuse material had also been saved on the device, including two videos in the most severe category.
The Crown Prosecution Service authorised eight charges following the British Transport Police investigation.
Greaves, of Park Grange Croft, Sheffield, admitted five offences.
They included attempting to meet a child under 16 following grooming and attempting to cause or incite a child under 16 to engage in sexual activity.
He also pleaded guilty to attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child and two counts of making indecent images of children.
Greaves denied three other similar charges, which will remain on file.
He was jailed for two years and eight months at Sheffield Crown Court on 31 July.
Greaves was also handed a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order and ordered to sign the sex offenders register for the rest of his life.
The attempted meeting took place on 26 July 2021.
Detective Constable Lee Walker, of British Transport Police, said: “Stephen Greaves poses a serious danger to children and has demonstrated a clear sexual interest in them.
“He spent weeks grooming who he believed was a teenage girl, sending vile and explicit messages before travelling to the station with Viagra for what he thought would be a sexual encounter.
“Our investigation uncovered the full extent of his offending.
“Through the forensic examination of thousands of gigabytes of data from his phone, we unearthed abhorrent child sexual abuse material.
“Thankfully Greaves is now behind bars and no longer able to prey on children.”
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