UK News 12-08-2003 Sick Student Tried To Buy Nine Year-Old For Sex who: Paedophile Luke Sadowski what: Sentenced to three years in prison for trying to buy sex with child where: Southwark Crown Court, LONDON when: Yesterday snippet: "Fury erupted last night," not least in the News International offices in Wapping, "after a pervert who tried to buy a girl of nine for sex was jailed for just THREE YEARS," says The Sun`s crime reporter Ian Hepburn. "Trainee teacher Luke Sadowski, 19, of Bishop’s Stortford, Herts, will not even have to go on the sex offenders’ register." Sadowski, who was carrying a replica handgun, "was arrested when he arrived at a hotel in London for what he believed was a pre-arranged meeting with a nine-year-old girl set up by an `internet pimp`," says The Independent. "He told the contact that he wanted to go `all the way` with the child but was unaware that the website he used had been set up by the police." Lisa Wilding, prosecuting at Southwark Crown Court, "said a safe containing handcuffs, leg restraints, a knife and a roll of tape was found in Sadowski`s room in Canterbury, Kent, where he was studying to be a teacher," reports The Telegraph. "It also contained details of prominent people caught during a police operation against paedophiles and a newspaper report about the murder and abduction of Milly Dowler, 13, which Sadowski had defiled." The defendant pleased guilty to the charge of attempting to procure a child for unlawful sexual intercourse. The maximum sentence which Judge Gerald Gordon could pass was two years; he noted that the law in this case was not "remotely adequate" but handed down an 18-month sentence to which he added a further 18 months for possession of an imitation firearm. [... more]

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