A CONVICTED paedophile who used a social media application to lure a nine-year-old girl into posting a sexual video of herself online has been jailed for four years.

Glen Friend, 28, used live streaming app Live.Me to encourage the schoolgirl to post the footage that was viewed by more than 300 users. In it she exposed intimate parts of her body, the Metropolitan Police said.

Friend, who pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to one count of inciting a girl under 13 to engage in sexual activity, and breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order, was jailed at Snaresbrook Court Court on Monday. He was also given a two-year extended supervision order.

The case is believed to be one of the Met’s first successful convictions relating to misuse of Live.Me to gain access to young children in a bid to groom them.

During May 2017, Friend was heavily involved, along with others, in encouraging the girl into actions including exposing intimate parts of her body.

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Friend, from Walthamstow, east London, was arrested on August 4 as he left prison, having served time for breaching sex offender notification requirements.