Alex Kear: Paedophile councillor jailed after arranging to meet ‘three-year-old girl’ for sexual abuse
The IndependentGet the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} A city councillor who believed he was arranging to meet up with a three-year-old girl for sexual abuse has been jailed after being caught in a police sting. Paedophile Alex Kear sent a series of messages to a woman he believed was the toddler’s mother – including one in which he told her he had “waited years” to abuse a young child. He was jailed for four years and labelled a “degenerate” by a judge at Leeds Crown Court on Friday after previously admitting arranging the commission of a child sexual offence and of inciting the sexual exploitation of a youngster under 13.