A DISABLED man from Wrexham has admitted a series of sex offences following an investigation by police.

Lee Barry Challinor, 42, believed he was speaking to youngsters over the internet but it turned out to be police officers posing as children.

An investigation showed he had also been in touch with others he believed to be children, including some abroad.

He had made and distributed indecent images of children, a court heard.

Challinor, of Queensway in Caia Park, appeared in the dock at Mold Crown Court where he pleaded guilty to a total of 26 offences.

Judge Rhys Rowlands ordered a pre-sentence report and said custody was inevitable.

Challinor was bailed on condition that he has no unsupervised contact with children, pending sentence on March 19.

A pre-sentence report will be prepared by the probation service.

The offences include attempting to cause a child to engage in se.ual activity, attempting to arrange the commission of a child sex offence, attempting to cause a child to look at images of himself indulging in an indecent act, and attempting to have sexual communication with a child.

He is further charged with making 14 category A images of child sex

abuse, 20 at category B and 92 at category C.

Challinor is charged with possessing a prohibited image of a child, possessing four extreme images involving humans and animals, and three charges of distributing indecent images of child sex abuse.

His barrister, Sion ap Mihangel, said his client no longer used any form of chat logs.

He said an adjournment for a pre-sentence report would give his client an opportunity to put his affairs in order.