A PERVERT who was caught out in a ‘paedophile hunter’ sting has been sent back to jail.

Andrew Mayers, of Kendrick Street in Warrington town centre, was originally jailed for 16 months at Chester Crown Court in December 2018 after being found guilty of a range of sexual offences.

This came after the now 44-year-old – operating with the username Daddy’s Girls – contacted an online profile he believed was a child and sent a string of vile messages attempting to the groom the youngster.

But the account was actually a decoy being operated by the Safeguarding the Innocent paedophile hunter group.

Mayers was also told to sign the sex offenders register for 10 years and handed a sexual harm prevention order of the same length, restricting his use of the internet and contact with under 16s.

But, in January this year, he was caught in possession of a mobile phone which he refused to produce to police – a violation of the court order.

And he was imprisoned for a further 16 months at Liverpool Crown Court on Monday, February 21, having admitted breaching a SHPO during an earlier hearing.

Mayers was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £156.