A pervert who posed as a teenage boy in internet chatrooms and persuaded young girls to send him revealing photos has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.

Nicholas Bennett, said to run a successful business, wept as a judge told him: "You are every parent's nightmare."

The 31-year-old husband, of Herbert Road, Swanley, also downloaded child sex abuse images, including a film clip showing bondage.

Judge Philip Statman said: "It is one of the worse images I have ever had to watch. It is quite shocking."

Bennett admitted five charges of causing or inciting pornography, four of making indecent images of children and one of causing or inciting sexual activity with a child.

Maidstone Crown Court heard police raided his home in February last year after one of his victims, aged 18, revealed she had emailed nude pictures of herself to him when she was 15. She described engaging in internet chat and role play with Bennett.

Another victim, aged 12, whom Bennett told he was 15, lived in Sydney, Australia.

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