Boys’ club coach pretended to be 12 to get sexual kicks
Pervert contacted 10-year-old boy in Australia
Despite that, depute fiscal Carol Whyte said that the accused claimed he was aged 12 - and that the Instagram account he was using belonged to his uncle.
He then began asking the youngster if he had a girlfriend and if he had kissed her.
The accused then started talking about his penis getting hard and asked the complainer if he had experienced the same.
Ms Whyte added: “This caused the complainer to feel scared and nervous and he described his stomach as going quite funny, with butterflies in his belly.
“At this point he told his mother who took his mobile phone from him and took a screenshot the messages.”
She then contacted the accused, telling him: “Don’t worry about deleting the messages, Nick.
“You have been talking to his mum and I’ve screenshot everything, f***ing pedo.”
Police in Adelaide were contacted, as was Scone Thistle FC chairman John Cleishman.
Henderson later attended at Perth Police HQ on November 19, 2016, and offered to surrender his laptop, mobile phone and iPad, as well as granting them access to any other devices.
It was established the phone he had provided was new and had been obtained the day after the Instagram messages were sent.
His iPad also had “no activity” listed between November 6 and 16, 2016, indicating it either had not been used or information had been scrubbed.
An Acer laptop showed a new operating system had been installed on November 18, 2016.
The length of time Henderson’s name will remain on the register will be decided next month when defence lawyer Kevin Lancaster gives his plea in mitigation.
Nicholas Henderson, a former youth football coach, tried to have a sexually explicit conversation with a young Australian boy who described him as “weird”