A former school church warden will be sentenced today after admitting trying to import a sex doll depicting a realistic child.

David Turner, 72, is now facing a jail sentence after a judge deemed the doll "obscene" in a landmark case.

After legal discussions with his barrister Dean George, Turner, of Hollicondane Road, Ramsgate, pleaded guilty in July to being “knowingly concerned” with the illegal importation of a child sex toy in March last year.

But he also admitted possessing or making more than 34,000 illegal child sex images and movies last November.

Turner had denied an eighth charge of possessing 25 extreme pornographic images and the Crown Prosecution Service accepted his plea.

National Crime Agency officers arrested Turner in November last year after Border Force officers intercepted a 3ft doll which he was attempting to import from China.

The Border Force-led Fast Parcel Joint Border Intelligence Unit at Stansted Airport inspected the package, which was labelled as a mannequin. It came with a fishnet body-stocking.

When NCA officers searched Turner’s home in December, they discovered two child sex dolls in his study.

They also seized a computer, tablets, external hard drives and pen drives.

The charge relates to a 3ft 10in doll that was already in his possession, and which he had bought clothes for.

After being arrested, Turner resigned as a school governor of St Ethelbert's Church Primary School in Margate and from St Ethelbert's and Gertrude Church where he was a warden.

He will be sentenced at Canterbury Crown Court this morning.