Policeman who chatted online about sexually abusing a girl walks free

  A policeman who discussed his sick fantasies about sexually abusing a young girl in graphic online chats with other paedophiles has been spared jail. PC Grant Thomas, 40, was snared by an undercover officer as part of the Met’s Operation Excalibur targeting perverted online forums. The officer engaged a user calling himself ‘Mark’ who discussed sex with underage girls on 24 January this year. In a chatroom called ‘Pervs’, Mark chronicled the sexual abuse of an eight-year-old and bragged…