Paedophile tried to enrol in school by pretending to be 14-year-old boy

Paedo dressed up in uniform to prey on teen girl and tried to enrol at school

Anthony Lonsdale was jailed for seven years after pleading guilty to eight counts of grooming.

Paedo caught posing as a teen to get enrolled at his 14-year-old victim's school

Anthony Lonsdale, 21, was arrested in March 2022 after he had been found posing as a schoolboy and even turned up to a school dressed in a uniform, having attempted to meet up with a teenage girl

Paedophile, 21, posed as 14-year-old in uniform to get into victim's school

Anthony Lonsdale, 21, set up fake profiles on Snapchat, Instagram and WhatsApp and contacted a girl, sending her increasingly intimate messages and sexually explicit photos

Paedophile tried to enrol in school by pretending to be 14-year-old boy

Anthony Lonsdale, 21, turned up at a school wearing a uniform and tried to enrol as a pupil in order to meet a teenage girl he had groomed on social media

Paedophile dressed up as teen and tried to enrol at school

Anthony Lonsdale set up fake profiles on Snapchat, Instagram and WhatsApp

Man posed as teen and tried enrol in same school as his victim

Anthony Lonsdale pleaded guilty to eight counts of grooming and possession of sexually explicit images of children