A Metropolitan Police officer has been sacked after being jailed for having sex with a 14-year-old girl.
Pc John Wigglesworth, 46, was dismissed without notice today after he was jailed for sexual activity with a girl he groomed online.
A Scotland Yard disciplinary hearing found the crime amounted to gross misconduct.
He was jailed for four years in February and put on the Sex Offenders Register for life after admitting sexual activity with a child.
The officer had made contact with the teenager on the NetLog site in 2007.
Detective Chief Superintendent Matthew Gardner said: "Pc Wigglesworth has completely breached the trust the public placed in him as a police officer by taking advantage of a vulnerable child.
"She was exactly the kind of person he had sworn to protect. The court has rightly sentenced him to a considerable period in prison and he has now been dismissed from the service."
Wigglesworth was suspended when he was arrested in August 2015, and his salary was stopped when he was sentenced, Scotland Yard said.
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