Sharing obscene photographs of youngsters and child grooming, a married man, Graham Rycraft Stratford Paedophile, pretending to be a 15-year-old lad was arrested.
Graham Rycraft, 50, of Stratford’s Honour Lea Avenue, was imprisoned for six years and granted four further years on licence.
Possessing indecent images of a kid and nine charges of sharing indecent pictures, he was imprisoned for trying to meet and engage in sexual behaviour with a youngster.
Originally found guilty in May, he was sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown Court on September 20.
Graham Rycraft started conversing online in September 2018 with someone he believed to be a 13-year-old girl but turned out to be a Metropolitan Police officer targeting predatory criminals under an online alias.
Graham Rycraft first pretended to be a 15-year-old lad, then shared pictures of child abuse before confessing he was an adult and still grooming the “girl.”
He made plans to meet the “girl,” but he went great distances to keep his identity secret and was quite careful about his security.
Having just verified with the ‘female’ whom he intended to meet, he was finally caught on September 5, 2018, in a phone box next to his business on Fitzroy Street in Central London.
The authorities discovered his “secret phone” upon arrest, which exposed the actual scope of the obscene photographs he owned and disseminated.
Graham Rycraft was accused the following day and placed in detention; she denied knowing about the cell phone.
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