A convicted sex offender from Rochdale has been deported to Pakistan, police have confirmed.

Kashif Mahmood, 37, was sentenced to two years and seven months in prison at Manchester's Minshull Crown Court on February 10 this year for online child sex offences.

He admitted charges of attempted sexual communication with a child, arranging/facilitating the commission of a child sex offence and attempting to meet a child following grooming, the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit (NWROCU).

The police unit has now confirmed that he was deported to Pakistan on June 1.

Mahmood, the court heard, lied about his age to meet up with who he thought was a 13-year-old girl. He was found by police at Manchester Piccadilly railway station with condoms stashed in his pocket.

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