After attempting to abduct a 14-year-old boy in Stockport, a man “clearly poses a danger to children” has been imprisoned. March 20 last year, Sheraz Bhatti Wythenshawe Paedophile was sitting in his orange and black Mini car on Jacksons Lane in the Hazel Grove area when he noticed the lad strolling home. A court listened as he yelled him over to grab his attention.
Then, at forty-three years old, Sheraz Bhatti asked him whether he wanted to get in the automobile. He promised to bring him home and said he had beverages to offer. Fortunately, the lad kept walking and reported to his parents what had happened when he returned. They got the cops online.
Later, police discovered that Sheraz Bhatti had looked online for a street school where he had parked and had conversations with the lad. Following the unique Mini’s identification as belonging to him, they located it parked outside his Wythenshawe house the following day.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) claims they seized two phones containing approximately three hundred obscene photographs of youngsters. Some fell into group B and C; others were category A, the worst sort.
Sheraz Bhatti was also discovered to have four bank accounts, which he had not told police about – which violated the sex offender indefinite notification rules he was put subject to following a conviction for sexual offences in 2008. He confessed he was on the scene even though he first denied trying to kidnap the lad.
Sheraz Bhatti then entered a guilty plea in December last year in trying to kidnap a child. He also entered a guilty plea to three counts of creating obscene images of a child, two counts of possessing obscene images of a kid, one count of distributing an indecent photograph of a child and neglecting to follow criteria for notifications.
Today (August 16), at Minshull Street Crown Court, Bhatti, of Longhope Road, Wythenshawe, was jailed for four years and three months. Richard Holliday, Senior Crown Prosecutor for CPS North West, said: “This incident encapsulates every parent’s worst nightmare. Sheraz Bhatti poses a danger to children.
“I would like to thank the boy for his quick thinking in raising the alarm, which has helped us bring him to justice and protect other children from any other potential abuse. The Crown Prosecution Service takes offending of this nature seriously and will work tirelessly to bring offenders to justice.”
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