Paedophile hunters confront man who arranged to meet girl at Sheffield railway station for sex
“You are a risk to children in the future”
A sex offender was confronted by paedophile hunter groups after he arranged to meet a 14-year-old girl at Sheffield railway station for sex.
Over the course of two months, Abdu Omar sent vile sexual messages to four online accounts he believed belonged to young girls aged just 13 and 14.
In reality, all of the four accounts were being operated by paedophile hunter groups.
Omar, of Kirton Road, Pitsmoor, Sheffield, made the initial contact, Sheffield Crown Court heard on July 21, 2026.
Despite being repeatedly told that the girls he thought he was speaking to were in their early teens, he quickly turned the conversation to sex, and asked them to send him pictures.
James Baird, prosecuting, said that when one of the groups behind one of the profiles he was chatting to told Omar she was 14-years-old, he replied “good.”
Omar subsequently made plans to meet one of the girls at the railway station.
Jailing Omar for six years, Judge Peter Hampton said: “You were there, fully intending to have sex with a 14-year-old girl…either at a hotel or at a friend’s home.
“You weren’t met with a 14-year-old girl, you were met with paedophile hunters.”
Mr Baird said Omar, then aged 21, was arrested on the spot.
Following a two-year delay in charges being brought, Omar denied the offences and took his case to trial, claiming an unknown male had used his phone to send the messages.
Jurors rejected his account and found him guilty of five counts attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child and one count of arranging/facilitating the commission of a child sex offence.
Defending, Zaiban Alam, said Omar, now 26, endured a difficult and traumatic start to life, and witnessed and experienced “unimaginable” horrors whilst serving as a soldier in Sudan.
She also reminded Judge Hampton of his lack of previous convictions, and the delay in the case.
Judge Hampton added: “You are a risk to children in the future…you have no understanding about the age of consent.”
Omar was made the subject of a 15-year sexual harm prevention order and was told he must remain on the sex offenders’ register indefinitely.