March 2016 Pervert repeatedly had sex with a girl aged 11 A paedophile who repeatedly had sex with a girl aged 11 as she played truant from school – and who later began grooming her little sister – has been jailed for 13 years. Michael Brookes, 26, of Lower Cross, Kington, began by texting the older sister, knowing her age, and arranging to meet her at a recreation ground, telling her he was 20, Worcester Crown Court heard. The girl, who is now aged 14, thought he was 30 but agreed to meet him while she missed school. Walter Bealby, prosecuting, said that on the second time Brookes took her to his flat, he removed her school uniform and had sex with her. When the girl’s sister reached the age of 11, Brookes began texting her to ask her out. She at first told him she was born in 1995 but later said on Facebook that she was just 11. Mr Bealby added that, although she refused to be Brookes’ girlfriend, he incited her to send him indecent images of herself, unaware that her sister had already had sex with him. After about three weeks the girls’ father found that his younger daughter had shared the images with Brookes. Then her sister “broke down” and revealed what had happened to her. Later, an ex-colleague of Brookes found on his work computer messages to and from 12 and 13-year-old girls. “He had contact with multiple under-age girls,” said Mr Bealby. The girls’ father said in a victim impact statement to the court that his older daughter was now “terrified” and everything seemed “to spook her”. The younger girl used to be friendly and outgoing but was now “tearful” and thought it was all her fault. Recorder Denis Desmond told Brookes – who admitted three charges of raping a girl under 13, one of sexual activity with a child, two of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, one of meeting a child after grooming and another of attempted grooming – that he would serve half of his sentence before being considered for parole. The rest would be served out of prison – but the recorder added an extra year to the time he will spend on licence from jail. Brookes was also given a sexual harm prevention order and ordered to pay a £120 victim surcharge. The recorder told him that both victims had feared they would have to come to crown court and be accused of lying until he eventually changed his previous denial of the offences to guilty pleas just a few weeks before a planned trial.