Philip Lewis, 44, of Tolpuddle, Dorset sent naked photos of himself and sexually chatted to a person he believed was a 13-year-old girl. Picture: Dorset Echo/PA
A PERVERT believed he was sending nude photographs of himself and sexually chatting to a '13-year-old girl’, but was actually being caught in a police sting, a court heard.
Philip Michael James Lewis, aged 44, was caught in a police operation into sexual crime in Dorset after he used the Kik messaging service to sexually communicate with who he thought was a teenager called Holly.
Prosecuting, Siobhan Oxley, explained to Weymouth Magistrates’ Court how police officers had set up a decoy and began communicating with Lewis between September 13 and October 29, 2020.