
A sexual predator has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple sexual offences against children.
Nigel Delaney, aged 65 and from Huddersfield, was charged with 27 counts of child sex offences, including attempting to pay for the sexual services of a child, attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming and distributing indecent images of a child.
The offences date from November 2015 to April 2016.
Delaney appeared at Burnley Crown Court on Monday 26 June and pleaded guilty to the 27 offences. He was sentenced yesterday, 27 June, to 12 years in prison. He was also issued an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order and banned from working with children.
Upon his arrest detectives at Lancashire Police, who led the investigation, discovered 250,000 messages sent to a number of boys across the Lancashire, Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire areas.