A senior NHS hospital worker who was jailed after he messaged a 14-year-old boy online offering him £100 and a McDonald's for sex has been struck off.

'Sex predator' Robin Hains sent who he thought was an underage boy called Seb explicit messages including a naked picture on messaging apps Grindr and Kik - not realising he was talking to an undercover police officer.

The 47 year old father of one said he was looking for a young boy who needed cash and boasted that he 'normally' met children after school.

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Robin Hains (Image: Hampshire Constabulary) They arranged for 'vile' Hains to come to the boy's house where the supposed teenager said he would wait for his mother to leave.

Hains drove 40 miles from his home in Bognor Regis, West Sussex to Southampton and was arrested as he waited in his Audi outside what he thought was Seb's house.

After being sentenced last year to 38 months in prison, he has now been thrown out of the medical profession following a hearing at the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service.

Southampton Crown Court previously heard that Hains was at the time working as an operating department practitioner (ODP) at St Richards Hospital, Chichester, part of University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust.

He was a senior member of a surgical team specialising in urology.

He admitted to arranging to meet a 16 year old, and the police officer found two phones with 300 Grindr conversations on them.

One conversation with another man read ‘damn good luck’, about the meeting with Seb.

It said: "It’s a perfect opportunity to take pictures, and the boy would never know."

Hains told the officer the messages were 'bravado and exaggerated and all made up.' He said ‘I suppose 16 was the age I wanted to be again.’

Robin Hains. Picture: Solent NewsRobin Hains. Picture: Solent News (Image: Solent News)
Bernice Mulvanny, defending, said Hains had been leading a 'double life'.

"At the age of 47 he has worked very hard to support his family. He has lost his job, which he worked very hard for.

"He was a clinical lead in a vaccination rollout on the South coast and has been praised for it. He’s had a significant fall from grace. He cares for his elderly parents and his estranged partner’s parents."

Hains pleaded guilty to arranging to commit a sexual act upon a child and three offences relating to indecent images and was jailed for a total of 38 months.

He also was made subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for ten years and will register as a sex offender for life.

Hains did not attend the disciplinary hearing - held earlier this month - and was said to express 'surprise' that he had not been banned from the profession immediately.

Striking him off, the panel said Hains' conduct was not isolated or minor in nature - but noted he had an 'otherwise unblemished career'.

They said: "Given the serious nature of the offences admitted by [Hains], and his apparent lack of remorse and insight, the Panel did not consider it appropriate to take no action or impose a Caution Order...."

"The Panel concluded that the only appropriate and proportionate sanction to impose in this case is that of removal from the Register."