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A businessman is facing jail after having sex with a 14-year-old schoolgirl.

Craig Evans, 26, persuaded the girl to spend weekends with him at hotels after she befriended him on social media.

Evans and the teenager fantasised about having a baby together and decided on the name Jack if it was a boy.

He had chosen an engagement ring and planned to propose to her on the London Eye when she reached 16.

But Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court heard the girl’s family called in police.

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Evans, who ran his own newspaper distribution company, was served with a child abduction notice preventing him contacting the girl.

But the court heard he continued seeing her for sex and was arrested when police spotted her in his car.

Evans told police the girl was “obsessed” with him and would not leave him alone.

But prosecutor Jonathan Rees said Evans had “pestered her for sex” and used his credit card to book rooms at a Premier Inn and a Travelodge.

He told the jury: “As the relationship developed they would flirt - he pestered her for sex but she refused saying she wasn’t ready.

“But he booked a room at the Premier Inn and lied to her mother that she was having a sleepover with a friend.”

The court also heard Evans gave the girl lager but she was “never drunk” and readily agreed to have sex with him in his car or at hotels.

Evans lived with his partner and their daughters while this was happening.

Mr Rees said: “They had unprotected sex and she had a few scares but didn’t fall pregnant.

“They would talk about having a baby together and used the name Jack after the Leonardo diCaprio character in the film Titanic.”

The court heard police were able to retrieve explicit sexual text messages sent between the pair which Evans had deleted.

Evans, of Tylorstown, Rhondda, claimed he was “set up” by the girl and her sisters.

But a jury found him guilty of two charges of sexual activity with a child and two of abduction by removing the girl from her mother’s care.

He was remanded in custody and will be sentenced next month.

Words by Tom Bedford