A 36-year-old man from Worthing, Jack Laingchild, has been sentenced to a four-year prison term after being convicted of grooming two underage girls through social media and engaging in unlawful sexual conduct with one of them. The incidents, which began in the summer of 2018, involved Laingchild initiating contact with the girls, then aged 14 and 15, through various social media platforms.
Laingchild’s communications with the young girls were highly inappropriate, involving the transmission of sexual messages and explicit images of himself. He escalated the situation by arranging meetings with the girls, during which he provided them with cannabis and engaged in sexual activities in his vehicle.