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A former Labour councillor has pleaded responsible to sexual offences towards a 13-year-old woman. Liron Woodcock-Velleman, 30, despatched bare footage of himself to the teen and requested if she was alone at residence.

He additionally urged the woman to point out him her bra and requested “whether she was a virgin” earlier than he was caught by London’s Metropolitan Police in a sting operation. Woodcock-Velleman appeared at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court on Friday (January 2) when he admitted one depend of trying to have interaction in sexual communication with a baby.

He additionally admitted one depend of being an offender aged 18 or over trying to trigger a baby aged 13 to fifteen to observe or have a look at a picture of sexual exercise.

Defending Woodcock-Velleman, Ali Hussain stated he was taking medicine for a melancholy prognosis, including the father-of-one is a household man.

Mr Hussain instructed the court docket: “He is a person of good character. He is currently unemployed. He is a family man.

“There is a superb deal about his background which can help the court docket to see how precisely he got here to search out himself on this place.”

He is due to be sentenced on February 10 at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court, according to The Sun.

The former councillor was released on conditional bail and cannot be in the company of anyone under the age of 18.

Woodcock-Velleman won one of two seats for Labour representing the Whetstone ward on Barnet Council in the 2022 local elections.

He resigned in April last year with no explanation. According to the Barnet Post, he ended his membership of the Labour Party.

Woodcock-Velleman was described by Jewish News as an influential figure within the Jewish Labour Movement group, a Zionist socialist society affiliated with the Labour Party.

He previously campaigned with Sir Keir Starmer and praised Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, as an ally of Jewish Barnet Labour councillors in a joint letter signed by the same grouping of local politicians published by the Barnet Post in October 2023.