A former British Airways pilot met a 12-year-old girl online and drove hundreds of miles to rape her.

Kwame Yeboah, a former England youth basketball player, met the girl on a video chat website before sending her explicit messages on Instagram.

The 30-year-old pilot traveled from his home in Reading to the Wirral after talking to the girl online for three months.

The girl's mother contacted the police after finding out her daughter was talking to a man online and had sex with him.

The mother told the police that the man drove a black Mercedes and had a fake name in the girl's phone.

When the police first talked to the girl, she didn't want to talk about it and said she hadn't been raped.

The girl said she wouldn't take emergency contraception and would keep the baby if she was pregnant.

Yeboah booked a hotel room and the girl snuck out of her house to meet him in his car.

The girl initially told Yeboah she was 17, but later sent him pictures of herself in school uniform.

Yeboah sent the girl messages saying he was sad because he couldn't see her and wanted to meet her.

Yeboah drove the girl around and asked to go to a car park to have sex.

Yeboah stopped the car and raped the girl, then drove to another location and raped her again.

Yeboah messaged the girl after worrying she might get the morning-after pill.

He told her she would have been asked questions before getting the pill and that she had lied to him.

The girl said she didn't want Yeboah to be mad at her and that she loved him.

The judge said Yeboah had groomed the girl and tried to manipulate her emotions.

The judge said Yeboah had traveled from Reading, booked a hotel room, and picked up the girl in his car.

Yeboah admitted to three counts of rape and was jailed for eight years and four months.

The abuse affected the girl's confidence, sleep, and school performance.

Yeboah was banned from contacting the girl for 15 years and will be on the sex offenders' register for life.