Sex predator Roly Brooker has been given a seven year sentence - for a copycat attack on a young girl.

The 56-year-old pervert was jailed for 10 years in 2003 for a series of devious grooming and sex attacks on a victim.

Now a judge has heard how around a dozen years later he used his earlier attacks as a blueprint for more assaults.

Brooker, of Clements Road, Ramsgate , groomed his earlier victim by playing a perverted card game to carry out sex acts.

Then he tried to cover up by accusing her of lying about her claims, Canterbury Crown Court heard.

Prosecutor Christopher May said Brooker did exactly the same by befriending a woman and then using the opportunity to sexually assault a child.

He said the victim was molested and then asked to play an Internet game of “Truth Or Dare” to introduce sex into the conversation.

And then he tried to get his frightened victim into performing sex acts and posing for disgusting photographs.

When he realised the girl had told her mother and the police had been alerted, he tried to cover up by telling police he was the victim of sordid lies.

Now Judge Simon James has sent Brooker to prison for four years – ordering him to serve two-thirds of the sentence rather than the usual half.

And he added another three years which the pervert will have to serve on licence when he is released. He was also made subject to a Sex Offender’s Prevention Order for life.

He told him that when he befriended his victim’s family he kept his sordid past a secret.

“In 2003 you received a prison sentence of 10 years after you were convicted on 10 counts of indecent assault on a victim aged under 14 years.

“I have been informed that during that lengthy sentence, you refused to engage in any treatment designed to address your underlying sexual interest in children.”

The judge said that once released after serving seven years of the 2003 10-year sentence, and after his release back into the community, he targeted a family in order to be in a position to sexually abuse young girls.

Brooker had then “deliberately engineered sinister opportunities” to carry out similar attacks to the ones for which he had been jailed.

Judge James said that as a result of his attacks, his victim had suffered mental anguish – but he praised her for having the courage to report what had happened to her mother.

Brooker, who admitted two charges of carrying out sexual activity with a child, still posed a significant risk to other children, the judge added.