Shocking moment married dad admits he's out to meet 'girl' aged just 14 with 'sweets and chocolate'
15.11.2023 - 00:30
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
This is the moment a 51-year-old married dad was snared after he went to meet someone he believed was a 14-year-old girl.
The Manchester Evening News revealed Zaheer Khan, now 53, was unwittingly exchanging messages online with a decoy who was posing as a schoolgirl called 'Emma'. A court heard Khan tried to get 'Emma' - who doesn't exist - to send him explicit images of herself and referenced 'sex in a car'.
He was jailed for two years and four months on Monday for what a crown court judge called 'a persistent attempt to incite this person to engage in penetrative sexual intercourse'.
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Video footage of the 'sting' has now been shared with the M.E.N. by an 'independent online child protection unit' called 'Sacred Souls' after Khan was jailed.
The footage, filmed using Facebook Live and posted on the publicly-accessible Facebook page of the group, shows former security guard Khan being approached by a number of people in a car park near a Tesco store in Cheadle in October, 2021.
They question him and Khan, of Briarfield Road, Withington, Manchester, says he is 'here to meet a girl'. Initially, he says he believes her to be 15, then admits he knows she was 14.
He is told - in a conversation captured entirely on camera - they have '500 pages' of messages and chats exchanges. Khan is asked why he is there and says 'to get to know her'. He then says: "I was going to do nothing, just talk to her."
He admits on camera he has brought sweets and chocolates as a 'present' for 'Emma', and admits