Sentencing Toner, who was found guilty at an earlier hearing, Recorder Jeremy Richardson said yesterday: "A woman who found the girl said she had never seen a child so frightened."

Toner, of North Ormesby, Middlesbrough, handed himself in to police after the CCTV footage from September 6 last year, was released. He will serve at least four years before being considered for parole and was placed on the sexual offenders' register for life.

Mr Richardson told him: "You were a sexual predator who had a cunning purpose. By pleading not guilty you forced the girl to give evidence. You spared the child nothing. She had to re-live the ordeal at your hands.

The judge told him: "You pose a serious risk of causing serious harm to children. The public and particularly children must be protected from you." Speaking outside Teesside crown court, the girl's father said: "It has been a shattering experience and it is a relief the case is now over.

"We will never get 100 per cent closure but the successful prosecution of Kevin Toner must surely go a long way to that target. We can only hope time weakens our bad memories of this crime. Our daughter is a lot more badly behaved, her character has changed."

FORMER school music teacher Graham Conridge, 60, of Bedford, was jailed for 32 months yesterday after he admitted at Lu-ton crown court posing as a teen boy on the web to persuade young girls to strip and perform sex acts.

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