A sexual predator has been jailed after sending explicit messages to a person he believed was a child.
Declan Sains, 28, was caught after talking to who he thought was a 14-year-old boy online, but instead was an undercover police officer.
When Sains was arrested at his home in Bishop Auckland, officers discovered more sexual conversations with actual children.
Sains previously pleaded guilty to engaging in sexual communication with a child, making indecent images of children and inciting a boy to engage in sexual activity. He was sentenced to eight years and three months in prison at Teesside Crown Court.
