‘Yes, I was child grooming. But only for a bit.’

A former adviser to the French Minister of Economy and Industry who arranged to meet a girl for sex is facing jail after prosecutors rejected his claim it was ‘only a temporary intention’. Christophe Bejach, 53, admitted to trying to meet the child for sex and possessing 60 child abuse images, including seven Category A images – the most serious kind portraying penetrative sexual activity. Officers discovered the sick stash on Bejach’s computer when they raided his Bayswater home on…