A depraved paedophile took Lego Star Wars sets and a toilet brush to a sordid meetup at a Costa Coffee.
Mark Edwards brought the gifts and a sex toy, among other troubling items, to the branch - where he had hoped to meet with the parents of a seven-year-old boy, whom he planned to rape. The convicted sex offender used the pseudonym Daddy4Young on an online fetish forum as he sought out young victims to abuse.
Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday afternoon, Wednesday, the 50-year-old was ensnared in a sting set up by Merseyside Police. Stella Hayden, prosecuting, described how an undercover officer created a profile on a sex fetish and sadomasochism website and posted in a group on the chatroom saying he was "curious about kinks".