Moment Olympic torchbearer is confronted by paedophile vigilantes

A London 2012 Olympic torchbearer who believed he was meeting a 14-year-old girl for sex after he brought flowers, pizza and Viagra to their railway station meet-up has been spared jail.



Paul Drake, 53, was snared by paedophile hunters who posed online as a young girl called Claire who made it clear she was an underage virgin willing to travel from Bournemouth to Scarborough to meet him.



Drake, who was chosen to carry the Olympic torch in the run-up to the London 2012 games because of his charity work at Tesco, intended to take her back to his home for sex while his wife was away on a hen do.



He even turned up with a bunch of daffodils and a pizza after an online chat about her favourite things as well as a 'blue tablet', thought to be Viagra, for himself.



Before the meeting he sent messages fantasising about taking her virginity, promising not to get her pregnant and asking her to wear specific underwear.



But he was confronted by vigilantes at Scarborough Railway Station in March in 'one of the most spectacular falls from grace that it's possible to imagine', York Crown Court heard.



Police arrested him on suspicion of a series of child sex offences and he was given a four-month suspended prison term after admitting trying to incite a child into having sex and sexual grooming.