Perverted pensioner ‘doesn’t like to talk about his paedophila’ – with adults

A pensioner who exchanged sexually explicit messages with an undercover officer posing as a 13-year-old girl has been spared jail. Mark Harrold, 65, met the officer, posing as a young teen, in a children’s chatroom and proceeded to bombard them with graphic sexual messages in July 2017. The grandfather-of-six sent videos of himself masturbating and instructed the ‘child’ to touch herself in the genitals, Inner London Crown Court heard. Prosecutor Christopher Kerr said: ‘On the 27 July 2017 the undercover…