The president of Hull Paranormal Ghost Society has been jailed for having sex with a teenage boy he groomed over the internet.

Robert Taylor, 26, of Acton Close, east Hull, was sentenced to three-and-a-half years at Hull Crown Court after pleading guilty to eight counts of having sex with a child and two counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

Taylor contacted the 13-year-old through internet chat rooms and later through MSN Messenger.

He groomed the boy for about a month, before they met and had sex on a number of occasions.

In one incident, he picked up the teenager outside his school, while he was still in his uniform.

Taylor also managed to get the contact details of a 14-year-old boy, who he tried to have sex with.

The self-styled ghost-buster founded Hull Paranormal Ghost Society in 2008 and carried out a number of investigations at properties in Hull and the East Riding.

The society operated from an office created at Taylor’s home and used a ghost-hunting kit, including Electromagnetic Field meters and Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) monitors.

Its response vehicle was a Fiat Seicento – dubbed “Sea King 1”, because its garish colour resembled the RAF rescue helicopter.

A statement on its website read: “Hull Paranormal Society is no longer running. We have temporarily closed down.”

Source: thisishullandeastriding.co.uk