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A paedophile who had just been released early from prison was snared again when he attempted to meet up with what he thought was an underage girl for sex.
Mark Thornton explained to the '14-year-old' he had 'been a naughty boy in the past' and had been 'grounded in a different way' after serving around half of his two year sentence.
Thornton, 51, had previously been caught coercing 'young girls' into meeting for sex before being snared red-handed in an Asda car park last year.
The paedophile was sentenced in September 2016 for engaging in explicit chats with what he thought were two 13-year-old girls and arranged to meet one to take her virginity.