Paedophile tricked Take That fan, 12, to perform sex tests

A PAEDOPHILE told a young girl she had to pass “sex tests” before he could set up a meeting with Take That star Mark Owen, a court heard yesterday.

Michael Meads, aged 52, tricked the 12-year-old, who was a virgin, into performing sex acts claiming he was working at a hotel where the group was staying and could arrange a meeting.

Prosecutor Mark Whitehall told Truro Crown Court the young fan had been “groomed intensively into regular and repeated sexual activity”.