A man has been jailed for three years for having sex with a 15-year-old girl he met after grooming her using a fake social media profile.

A judge has been asked not to jail a man who had sex with a teenage girl after grooming her through a fake social media account.

Dave Kenny grew up in an era when a splash of Brut and a flannel cloth under the arms was the height of male grooming. But that won’t wash anymore.

The schoolgirl accused by a judge of “grooming” a religious studies teacher into having sex has said she regrets the trial more than the affair.

A middle-aged man has been given a second prison sentence for the sexual exploitation of young teenage girls by using Facebook.