Biomedicine expert Trevor Jackson (47) admitted using chat rooms to seduce the teenager, before arranging secret meetings at the four-star Grand Hotel on the Esplanade.
Jackson, of Lyndhurst Avenue, Jesmond, Newcastle, admitted five counts of meeting a child following sexual grooming and five counts of sexual activity with a child when he appeared in Newcastle Crown Court.
Jackson also pleaded guilty to two charges of making indecent photographs of a child and three charges of the possession of indecent photographs of a child.
The offences, which happened between September 2005 and February 2006, came to light last year.
• Full report in today’s Jersey Evening Post
