A PENSIONER from Dawlish has been told he will be sent to jail after he admitted trying to contact five under age girls on the internet for sexual gratification.
Gary Chivers was already a registered sex offender when he was caught in a series of sting operations by paedophile hunters in August this year.
He was subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order which banned him from online contact with any female who was aged under 16.
He made contact with five decoy profiles of girls who claimed to be aged 11 to 14 and encouraged all of them to touch themselves sexually.
Chivers, aged 70, of Redwood Court, Dawlish, admitted five counts of attempted sexual communications with a child, five of attempting to incite a child to sexual activity and five of breaching a sexual harm prevention order.
The order was made by Reading Crown Court on December 18, 2015 after a conviction for a previous child sex offence.
Judge David Evans remanded Chivers in custody at Exeter Crown Court and ordered the probation service to assess whether he should be sentenced as a dangerous offender.
He said: ‘I need a report on dangerousness in this case because of his previous convictions.’
He said an immediate jail sentence was ‘inevitable.’