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Man jailed for preying on teens uses online dating site

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A PAEDOPHILE who stalked schoolgirl­s over the internet is “looking for love” on a dating website.

Vile Bryan Lee was jailed after he encouraged girls as young as 13 to perform sex acts via web cameras.

He admitted almost 40 sexual offences, which included having more than 3,500 indecent images of children on his computer.

Now out of prison, the wheelchair-bound pervert has a profile on the popular Plenty of Fish website.

Despite being aged 50, Lee told anyone reading his details: “45 but feels 20 in side.

“I am disabled, in a wheelchair since 1990 I broke my neck in a car crash, I do not have the use of JOE HINTON my legs, but life goes on :) So I know this is going to put a lot of people off me! if you like someone! being in a wheelchair shouldn’t put people off ! my way at looking at things! if you like that person! then don’t look at the wheelchair! – look at the person sat in it!

“If you like what you see drop me a line!”

He says he is looking for a longterm relationsh­ip and is “undecided” about having children.

Lee was jailed for three-and-ahalf years after Amersham Crown Court heard he posed as a 15-yearold boy and told his victims to perform sex acts after contacting them via social media.

Police also discovered he was inciting children to engage in sexual activity from looking at chat logs on his computer.

All of Lee’s victims were girls aged between 13 and 15 and were approached via the website MyYearbook, a social media site now called MeetMe.

Police also discovered a total of 3,551 indecent images and videos of children on Lee’s computer.

Of these, 51 were of the most serious “level five” and showed the rape or torture of children.

Lee, from Chesham, Bucks, admitted making indecent images of children, causing/inciting a female under 16 to engage in penetrativ­e sexual activity, causing/ inciting a female under 16 to engage in non- penetrativ­e sexual activity, and taking images of children.

After his sentencing, Det Con Lisa Heaton of the Paedophile Online Investigat­ion Team said: “Bryan Lee epitomises the dangers posed to children by online paedophile­s.

“He pretended to be a charming 15-year-old boy and, through devious and emotional means, he preyed on young victims.”

We were tipped off about Lee’s profile after a concerned member of the public emailed the sex offender tracking website the UK Database. When we spoke to Lee he claimed he did not use the Plenty of Fish profile, despite us contacting him via an email address he had included on his dating page. indecent

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