Man jailed for trying to import child-like sex doll

A man who tried to import a child-like sex doll has been jailed in what is thought to be one of the first prosecutions of its kind in the UK.

Andrew Dobson, 49, was sentenced at Chester Crown Court to two years and eight months after pleading guilty to importing an indecent object, two counts of making indecent images of children and one count of possessing indecent images of children.

A parcel addressed to Dobson, of Wistaston in Crewe, was held at East Midlands Airport in September last year, Cheshire Police said.

Border Force officers identified a parcel labelled as a mannequin, but which was found to contain an obscene child-like doll. This had been purchased from Hong Kong.

Dobson was arrested at his home and following a search indecent images of children were found on his computer.