April 1999
Cyber sex boss jailed
A Briton who had sex with a girl of 13 he met on an Internet chat line has been jailed for 14 months.
Insurance executive Toby Acton, 28, above, used his office computer to swap suggestive messages with the schoolgirl before inviting her to meet him at a hotel in the sleazy Wan Chai district. He hired a room and they had sex.
Acton was transferred from Liverpool to Hong Kong with his company Griffiths and Armour in 1997
However after the sexual abuse was discovered Acton was fired from his lucrative job.
Acton admitted having unlawful intercourse with a girl under 16 years old and he was jailed for 14 months
