Married Bristol man arrived for 'secret' date at bowling alley but ended up in jail View Image

A married man from the Bristol area groomed what he believed to be a 14-year-old girl he'd met online, then booked a hotel room for them and stocked it with sexual items, a court has heard. But Rodolfa Galvao was arrested after turning up to meet the child at a tenpin bowling alley, only to be confronted by members of a paedophile hunter group.

Sending the 49-year-old defendant from Yate down, a judge at Swansea Crown Court said there was 'only one reason' why the defendant had booked the hotel room in Swansea and equipped it with the items he had - alcohol, condoms, lubricant, sex toys, and a copy of the Karma Sutra sex book.

The judge said he had no doubt Galvao had intended to engage in s

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