A Paedophile West Yorkshire Police officer, Michael Conlon From Swillington, has received a ten-year prison sentence for orchestrating a meeting with an eight-year-old girl for sexual purposes.
A court informed Michael Conlon that he presents a significant threat to children while imposing the prolonged prison sentence.
Michael Conlon was apprehended in November of the previous year after travelling from his residence in Leeds to Liverpool to meet an undercover police officer impersonating another paedophile.
Leeds Crown Court was informed that the officer encountered Michael Conlon in an online chatroom while impersonating a father of two children.
Former West Yorkshire Police officer Michael Conlon received an extended ten-year prison sentence after admitting to organising or supporting the commission of a child sex crime.
Ben Campbell, representing the prosecution, stated that the officer informed Michael Conlon of having an eight-year-old daughter and a three-year-old son.
Michael Conlon transmitted a message to the police indicating his search for “dads who share,” accompanied by repugnant texts revealing his sexual interest in minors.
The 46-year-old defendant thereafter communicated additional texts via an encrypted application.
Michael Conlon informed the officer that he had previously engaged in sexual relations with a 12-year-old girl but was no longer able to access minors.
Michael Conlon is depicted outside Leeds Crown Court in 2009, when he was incarcerated for attempting to engage in sexual contact with a minor.
The prosecutor stated that Michael Conlon orchestrated a meeting with the police to facilitate a sexual encounter with the ‘girl’.
Michael Conlon purchased a toy unicorn and forwarded a video of it to the police.
Michael Conlon photographed outside Leeds Crown Court in 2009.
The defendant travelled to Liverpool on November 20 last year and they met in a Costa coffee shop.
The officer recorded his conversion with Michael Conlon during the 25-minute meeting.
Michael Conlon was arrested the next day at his home.
The arresting officers knocked on the door for five minutes and suspected that he was clearing incriminating evidence from his electronic devices.
Chat logs on the devices were later found to have been scrambled.
A toy unicorn matching the one in the video he had sent was recovered from the living room.
Michael Conlon, of Newton Grove, Chapeltown, made no comment when interviewed by officers.
He pleaded guilty to arranging or facilitating commission of a child sex offence.
Michael Conlon lost his career in the police when he was jailed in 2009 for attempting to engage in sexual activity with a child, attempting to meet a girl under 16 after sexual grooming and making and possessing indecent photographs of children.
A probation service report assessed him as posing a serious risk to children.
Andrew Coleman, mitigating, said Conlon pleaded guilty to his latest offence at an early stage.
Mr Coleman said his client also has mental health problems which required medication.
Michael Conlon was told he must serve a six-year custodial term, of which two-thirds must be spent in cudosty.
He will then spend a further four-year period on licence.
Sentencing, Judge Tom Bayliss QC said: “The prison sentence which was imposed on the last occasion did not deter you, nor did the sexual harm prevention order.
“You were prepared to abuse an eight-year-old child for you own sexual needs.
“You were prepared to take risks. You were prepared to act upon your own sexual impulses to sexually abuse a very young child”.
The YEP reported in 2009 how Conlon was jailed for two and a half years for trying to groom a teenage girl over the internet.
He was a serving policeman when he was exposed as a paedophile by a colleague masquerading as a 14-year-old girl in an internet chat room.
Michael Conlon, then aged 33, believed he was grooming a schoolgirl for sex.
But the Killingbeck-based constable was actually sending sick messages and sexual webcam footage of himself to a female officer from the Metropolitan Police.
Michael Conlon contacted her ‘Shelley 14’ profile on chat website FaceParty numerous times over a six-month period.
He called himself ‘Wingnut79’ and ‘Man in uniform69.’
Michael Conlon asked if she was a virgin and said he wanted her phone number and naked pictures after she told him she was aged 14.
Michael Conlon also arranged to meet a genuine 15-year-old girl he wanted to have sex with.
Michael Conlon, an officer for five years before his arrest, turned up for the meeting in Knaresborough but she did not.
When police raided his then home in Primrose Hill Drive, Swillington, in August 2008 they found 370 depraved pictures and videos.
The images of girls as young as five being abused had been downloaded to his computer over a three-year period.
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