François Olvaj, a detective in the Metropolitan Police Special Operations Unit, thought he was chatting online with a teenage girl, but in reality he was a secret officer.
He was arrested at McDonald’s in Basingstoke as he was about to buy McFlurry ice cream to take to the park with Caitlin.
Two condoms, lubricant, erectile dysfunction pills and a box of Ferrero Rocher were found in his bag.
Olwaj, 52, of Stevenage, Hertfordshire, hosted the two-week online chat և WhatsApp.
His trial at Winchester Crown Court heard that he was “on duty to work from home” when he arranged a date in October 2021.
Olvaj insisted that he did not believe that he was really dating a teenager, that he thought he was an adult “playing fantasy”.
He said the items found on him were not specially packaged, but it was his usual travel bag for business trips, vacations or dates.
Before the scheduled meeting, the court heard that he had written a message. “Because of your age, everything can be very bad for us, I can break the law, lose my job, call social services.
“I do not want anything from that for us, so that we can not meet tomorrow for something sexual, so it can only be that we met to talk, to spend time together.”
Prosecutor Peter Shaw told the court that Olwage had traveled by train to Bessingstock, Hampshire, and rented an apartment that evening.
On Thursday, the jury found him guilty of having sex with a child. Attempt to induce or induce a 13-year-old girl to have sexual activity. փորձ Attempt to meet a girl under 16 after haircut.
The judge ordered the jurors to find him not guilty of organizing / facilitating the commission of a child sexual offense.
He had already confessed that he had improperly exercised his police powers in order to receive the “benefit of sexual satisfaction”.
Olvaj, a divorced father of three of South African descent, was remanded in custody pending an April 27 verdict.
Police officer Francois Olwaj found guilty of having sex with 13-year-old girl | UK news
