A paedophile police constable with an "insatiable appetite" for preying on young girls has been jailed for 25 years.

Ian Naude, 30, was convicted following a trial of the rape and sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl who he met while serving as a student police officer with Cheshire Police.

In a statement read to the court, her mother said the victim would no longer leave the house without close family and friends.

She said: "She will no longer walk past the local police station and hides when a police car drives past."

Liverpool Crown Court heard Naude, who was sentenced for a total of 37 offences, joined the force in April 2017 and was obsessed with taking the virginity of teenage girls who he groomed online.

He first met his rape victim in October last year when he was called to a domestic incident at her home and days later picked her up in his car and raped her in the back seat, filming the assault on his phone.

Sentencing him on Thursday to 25 years in prison with an extended licence period of five years, honorary recorder of Liverpool Judge Clement Goldstone QC said: "In order to impose your will on a young girl, three weeks past her 13th birthday, and to commit offences of rape and sexual assault against her, you used and abused your position as a Cheshire Police officer, thereby enabling you to satisfy your lust and perversion."