A PAEDOPHILE who messaged a man online believing he would arrange to meet his granddaughter for sexual activity has been jailed.

Andrew Taylor, 55, was jailed for 15 months for trying to arrange getting a lap dance off the schoolgirl, whom he believed to be 11 or 12.

Oxford Crown Court heard how police swooped on Taylor's Barton home after being tipped off he had indecent images of children.

But after seizing his Acer laptop and Blackberry phone police found messages from Taylor trying to arrange to get a lap dance off a young girl.

The court heard on Thursday, May 5, Taylor had been messaging a man who was offering him the chance to meet his granddaughter and had said he "couldn’t wait to have fun with her".

Prosecutor John Upton said: "He said that he had been told by the man that the girl was his granddaughter aged 11 or 12."

Police found 14 indecent images of children on Taylor's laptop, as well as the messages on his Blackberry mobile phone after searching his home in May last year.

Taylor, of Barton Village Road, admitted possessing indecent images of children and attempting to arrange the commission of a child sex offence.

He had previously been handed a community order in 2010 for making indecent images of children.

Timothy Boswell, defending, had previously stressed his client did not meet the girl and it was not clear if the youngster actually even existed.

Taylor was due to be sentenced earlier this month, but judge Zoe Smith delayed jailing him "out of humanity" because there was no one to care for his elderly father.

Mr Boswell said Taylor was the main carer for his elderly father, who would have no one to look after him if his son was jailed.

He told the court yesterday on May 13 how Taylor had contacted social services to arrange support for his father.

He added: "Social services will be visiting Mr Taylor's father to assess his needs and how they can meet them.

"If Mr Taylor loses his liberty in the meantime his father's day to day needs will be provided for by a neighbour."

He appealed for a suspended or community sentence, saying Taylor was prepared to undergoing a sex offenders treatment programme for two years.

But Judge Smith said despite Taylor's early guilty pleas and full admissions to police, only a custodial sentence was appropriate.

She said trying to meet the youngster to engage in sexual activity with her was "a very serious offence and one for which custody is appropriate".

Taylor was also handed a sexual harm prevention order and told to sign the sex offenders register for 10 years.