Wolverhampton man, 43, was in graphic sexual communication with '12-year-old girl'
Grown man wrongly thought he was exchanging sex texts with underage girls
A 43-year-old paedophile was busted when he struck up graphic sexual chats online with undercover police officers.
Scott Ellam, of Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, was sentenced at the city’s crown court for two counts of an adult attempt to engage in sexual communication with a child between July 24 and 27 last year. He had denied the offences and was subsequently convicted following a trial held previously.
The motor delivery driver exchanged messages involving “graphic” content on various internet apps in the wrong belief that he was chatting with young members of the public and persisted in trying to get them to send indecent images, even when the persons using the names ‘Poppy’ and ‘Lucy’ replied that they were only 12 and 13-years-old respectively. He also urged them to contact him on digital platforms including ‘Kick’ and ‘Telegard’.
At the hearing on Wednesday, the court heard that Ellam, of Woodfield Heights, committed the crimes while he was working away after logging into online chat rooms. The court heard he had alcoholic parents and was estranged from his family. However, had a partner who had stuck by him.
He was arrested and his devices checked by officers from the West Midlands Police child sex exploitation unit on July 28, 2025.
Judge Jonathan Gosling jailed Ellam for 19 months. He was also made subject to the sex offenders’ register and sexual harm prevention order for 10 years.