A BRADFORD taxi driver who went to meet ‘Poppy aged 13’ equipped with Viagra tablets, condoms and a child’s black playsuit has been jailed for two and a half years.

Naveed Ansari, 46, pretended to be a single man less than half his age when he contacted what he believed was an underage girl on Facebook while married with a family, Bradford Crown Court heard today.

Ansari, of Beckside Road, Great Horton, Bradford, engaged in sexualised chat with the decoy child who was an adult member of Net Justice, a group set up to snare internet paedophiles.

Prosecutor Richard Walters said the false child’s profile included a phone number. She accepted Ansari’s friend request and the chat soon moved on to WhatsApp.

Ansari told her he was 20, later revised to 24, and she made it clear that she was 13.

The court heard that his chat was sexualised. He told Poppy she was pretty and beautiful and said he would treat her like a princess.

He asked about the size of her breasts and requested images of her ‘body parts.’ Ansari sent a video of him touching his penis and asked for pictures in return, which were declined.

He sought to groom Poppy with presents of a dress, a bra and a teddy bear.

He said he would pick her up from school in his taxi because that would not arouse suspicion.

Then he arranged to meet her in Leeds on October 23 last year. He turned up in the early afternoon with six Viagra tablets, condoms and a child’s black playsuit he had bought the previous day.

“The Crown says that these items leave little doubt about what the defendant’s intentions were,” Mr Walters told the court.

He was met by members of Net Justice who called the police. He was arrested and did not answer any police questions.

An examination of his phone disclosed an image of two boys having sex with a donkey and an image of a man having sex with a chicken.

He went on to plead guilty to attempting to incite a girl aged 13 to engage in sexual activity, between October 15 and 24 last year; attempting to sexually communicate with a child; attempting to travel to meet a child following grooming; making an indecent image and possession of an extreme pornographic image.

Katherine Robinson said in mitigation that Ansari was a man of previous good character who found it very hard to accept the offences he had committed.

The offending was naïve and unsophisticated and represented one piece of conduct.

It was an attempt; there was no real child involved.

Ansari had lost his family and his career as a taxi driver.

Recorder Tahir Khan KC said the offending was so serious that it must be met with an immediate prison sentence.

The decoy had repeatedly said she was 13 and that had not deterred Ansari. His behaviour ‘wasn’t just talk,’ he wanted to meet up with her and turned up with Viagra, condoms and child’s playsuit.

Despite his guilty pleas, he still continued to deny responsibility for what he did.

Recorder Khan jailed Ansari for 30 months and made a Sexual Harm Prevention Order without limit of time. He must also sign on the sex offender register, also without limit of time.