A paedophile who hid behind fake personas in twisted online chats to encourage a teenage girl to send him indecent photos and engage in sex acts ended up losing his ‘marriage and friends’. Canterbury Crown Court heard Andrew Rickards initially posed as a 14-year-old girl with the username ‘Amybum’ to engage with the victim in January 2022. Under that guise of being ‘Amy from Ashford’, the pervert then introduced his second false identity – that of a man of varying ages called ‘James’ – into his depraved communications. Having told the 13-year-old that ‘James’ was 36 and would be “driven crazy”…
