Met Police counter-terrorism officer who attempted to meet 13-year-old girl for sex jailed for five and a half years

Ben Chapman

By Ben Chapman


Published: 27/04/2022

- 11:01

Updated: 14/02/2023

- 11:33

He found guilty of three child sex offences, after he arranged to a meet a 13-year-old girl for sex when he was 'on duty working from home'

Metropolitan Police counter-terrorism officer Detective Constable Francois Olwage has been jailed at Winchester Crown Court for five and a half years for arranging to meet a 13-year-old girl for sex.

He found guilty of three child sex offences, after he arranged to a meet a 13-year-old girl for sex when he was “on duty working from home”.


Francois Olwage, a detective constable who was serving with the Met’s specialist operations unit, was convicted of grooming what he believed to be a 13-year-old girl he had met on the Lycos online chat forum.

Olwage was arrested at a McDonald’s restaurant in Basingstoke by two undercover officers as he was about to buy a McFlurry ice cream to take to his meeting with “Caitlin”.

When searched, the officers found in his bag two condoms, a bottle of lubricant and a packet of Tadalafil erectile disfunction tablets.

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