January 2023 University Hospitals Sussex worker abuse boy in Southampton An NHS worker who travelled to Southampton to have sex with a teenage boy fainted when he was met by police, a court heard. Robin Hains was arrested during a police sting in Shirley. The 47-year-old had travelled along the south coast, from Bognor Regis, in the hope of abusing a 13-year-old. According to police, he used an online messaging platform to brag about his plans to another man in March last year. Appearing at Southampton Crown Court, he pleaded guilty to arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence and making indecent images of children. Hains, who worked at the urology department of University Hospitals Sussex, was jailed for three years and two months. The defendant, of St Mary’s Close, Lavant, Chichester, must register as a sex offender for ten years and has been made subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) for the same time.