A German sex offender who attempted to entice a Perthshire schoolgirl out of Scotland has begged a court to allow him to contact his victim from prison.
Divorced father of two Uwe Kaiser, 49, said the girl is now 16 and “wished to see and speak with him” after a botched bid to sentence him in Perth left him languishing behind bars.
The chemical plant worker, from Frankfurt, said he had “no family in Scotland and no close friends” and that the only person with whom he had ever had “significant contact” was the young girl he groomed from the age of 15.
Appearing at Perth Sheriff Court, he asked to be allowed to write to the girl and call her and to receive visits from her in prison, but was denied by a sheriff.
Kaiser spent months in “highly sexualised” contact with the impressionable youngster, who cannot be named for legal reasons, after they “met” on an internet chat site.
He flew more than 600 miles to visit her in secret and then, on a second visit to Scotland in 2015, persuaded her to run away to start a new life with him.
A missing person hunt led police officers to send a flurry of text and email warnings about the danger he posed and saw her turn herself into a London police station.
Kaiser was apprehended a short time later and has been behind bars ever since.
He was due to have been sentenced at Perth Sheriff Court but appeared without a report required to assess the level of threat he poses to the public.
It emerged a bid to bring a translator from the south of England to help him speak to staff from the Tay Project, which works with sex offenders, had failed.
Facing another three weeks behind bars before he is dealt with, he pleaded with a sheriff to be allowed to see the girl again.
Kaiser has already admitted breaching bail conditions by contacting the girl but claimed that contact had only served to illustrate that she wanted to see him.
Speaking on behalf of his client, solicitor John McLaughlin said: “Following Mr Kaiser’s first breach of bail, the young lady was contacted by the police and she confirmed that she was also making contact with him.
“It is her wish to have contact with him and that is also his wish.
“She is no longer a witness against him and she is now over 16.
“He asks that he might be allowed to have letter, telephone and visitor contact with her at the prison.
“Any letters would be vetted and calls and visits monitored by prison staff.”
All those requests were rejected by Sheriff Gillian Wade, who deferred sentence until January 18.
During an earlier court appearance, prosecutors revealed Kaiser had first met the girl online in a chat site in December 2014.
At the time she was just 15, but within weeks their conversations had turned sexual and they were using an encrypted messaging services to exchange explicit pictures.
She initially claimed to be 16, while he said he was 35, but even when she confided that she was just 15 he continued to have “sexualised chat” with her.
The Crown said Kaiser was known to have made two visits to Scotland to meet the girl.
On the second occasion, he persuaded her to board a coach in Perth to head for London and then on to Germany.
Police officers intervened before the accused’s plan could come to fruition.
Kaiser has admitted grooming a girl between January and October 2015, having indecent images of a child and of breaching a bail order not to approach the girl.
He remains in custody and on the sex offenders register.
