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Lawyer's 'sex with chat room girl'
LONDON, England -- A solicitor had sex with a 14-year-old girl at a hotel after meeting her in an Internet chat room, a British court has heard. Ashfaq Altaf, 32, told police later that he had not known the girl's true age and thought she was over 16. Altaf, of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, denies unlawful sexual intercourse in November last year, when he was 31. Geoffrey Birch, prosecuting, said: "The defendant and this young girl became acquainted some time before November through a chat room on the Internet. "Telephone numbers were exchanged and he contacted her." Birch said the couple established a relationship and arranged to meet at a west London railway station on a Friday evening. Altaf drove her to a cinema, where they found they could not get in because it was fully booked. Birch continued: "It was then decided to go to a hotel. She realized that she was in trouble the following morning. She had stayed out the whole night. The police were informed by her mother -- she had been reported missing." Altaf then dropped her off near her home. When she was interviewed by police, she said sex had taken place against her will. Birch said: "She was subsequently to admit to police that she had told some lies, particularly about how she came to meet the defendant, because of her mother getting to know she had met him through the Internet." In April this year, she admitted meeting him in a chat room and not after the solicitor approached her outside her school, as she had originally told police. The case, at London's Old Bailey, continues.
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