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A predator with a 'monstrous sense of sexual entitlement' has been jailed for 20 years for a string of sexual offences against a vulnerable teenage girl.

Karl Davies travelled from his home in Birkenhead, Merseyside, to meet his victim in Stockport a total of four times in the summer of 2024, Manchester Crown Court heard today (October 20).

The 42-year-old sexually abused her during these meetings and on one occasion encouraged her to self-harm, providing her with a razor blade and asking for photos of the act.

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Encouraging someone to self-harm is a relatively new offence introduced in the 2023 Online Safety Act, and Davies' conviction is thought to be the first in the UK where an adult has done so to a child.

But he had be

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