Three men wsho'd planned on using Net chat rooms in a plot which would have culminated in the rape two young sisters have been jailed.

"David Beavan (far right), 42, of Bransgore, Hants, Alan Hedgcock (centre), 41, of Twickenham, and Robert Mayers, 42, of Warrington, were found guilty of conspiracy to rape," says the BBC, going on:

"Jurors heard how the men, who had never met, came across each other in an incest chatroom where Hedgcock told Beavan he wanted to abuse two sisters, aged 13 and 14. Beavan said he was interested in the plan, which involved pouncing on them as they walked through woods to school.

"Mayers was later recruited via the internet."

Beaven, a greeting card salesman, "claimed he was just a 'vigilante' gathering evidence against paedophiles," says ThisIsLondon.

Judge Geoffrey Rivlin QC, said because the men posed a, "serious risk of physical and psychological harm to children", they would also be required to register as sex offenders for life, says the story, adding:

"They would also have to undergo a sex offenders treatment programme in prison and be subject to a sex offenders prevention order closely controlling their contact with young children, accessing the internet and possessing photographic equipment."

The chatroom logs of their discussions about their plans for the girls were of the "most lurid and disgusting kind," said Rivlin.

They were given indeterminate sentences with an 11-year tariff for Beavan and eight-year tariffs for the other two, says the BBC.

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Also See:
BBC - Men jailed for online rape plot, February 5, 2007
ThisIsLondon - Men jailed over internet schoolgirl rape plot, February 5, 2007