Sex offender jailed after trying to meet child in Ripon
John Peter Noble arranged to meet a four-year-old over the internet- but didn't realise he was speaking to police
Last updated 19th Jul 2021
A man from Ripon has been jailed for 10 years after trying to arrange to meet a four-year-old online.
But John Peter Noble didn't realise he was actually speaking to police, who arrested in him in Ripon in April.
He pleaded guilty to nine offences in May and has today been sentenced to a decade in jail, and given four years on licence.
Noble also breached the conditions of his sexual harm prevention order by trying to arranged for a child and a baby to stay at his home.
He was issued with the order in 2019 after being found with indecent images.
Detective Sergeant Lee Allenby, of the Online Abuse and Exploitation Team, said: “This was a particularly distressing case where Noble, a man who had already been caught by the police and put before the courts just a couple of years ago, had purchased items for a baby as well as sexual items to facilitate the abuse on the four-year-old girl.
“Noble simply could not resist acting on his sexual deviancy towards children. It is frightening to think that he was actively arranging to rape a child.”
DS Allenby added: “This was a successful operation where the extensive and strong collaboration between North Yorkshire Police’s Online Abuse and Exploitation Team and Yorkshire and Humber Regional Organised Crime Unit, ensured Noble was brought to justice.
“It also showed the lengths of depravity that Noble would go to conduct child sex abuse.
“A long custodial sentence is a pleasing outcome in this case, and it sends a stark warning to other paedophiles who think they can operate with impunity online.”