November 2014 Married 47yr old Lincoln man had sex with under-age girl A married Lincoln man who had sex with an under-age girl has been jailed for four-and-a- half-years. Andrew Martin Cook, 48, admitted two charges of having sexual activity with the child after taking her to an unoccupied house in the south of the city. Lincoln Crown Court heard Cook, a father-of-two, took the girl to a former property that was being renovated after picking her up from near a Lincoln park. Robert Underwood, prosecuting, said the house where Cook took the girl was not the same property where he lived with his wife and family. Mr Underwood told the court: “Significantly there was a mattress in the property.” Cook admitted also taking indecent photographs of her on his mobile phone. Mr Underwood said there had been some phone contact between Cook and the girl before the offence. The court heard Cook was arrested after the girl, who can not be named for legal reasons, confided in a friend. She later made a video interview with specially trained police officers. In a victim impact statement the girl said she did not want the activity to happen. The girl’s mother said she believed her daughter’s innocence had been taken from her. During police interview Cook made no comment. Cook, of Newark Road, Lincoln, pleaded guilty to two charges of sexual activity with a child and one charge of taking indecent images of a child. All the offences occurred on 2 February, last year. Michael Cranmer-Brown, mitigating, said Cook disputed that there had been any grooming of the girl. “He says this was not pre-planned, there was no targeting or grooming of this girl,” Mr Cranmer-Brown added. “It happened spontaneously.” Passing sentence Judge John Pini QC told Cook: “You were 47-years-of age.” Cook was also made the subject of a sexual offences prevention order which prevents any unsupervised contact with a girl under 16.