A HOUSEHOLD Cavalry soldier who plotted to rape a baby and young girl has been jailed.
Graham Jarvis, 38, struck a twisted deal with a woman he met online to sexually abuse her children.
The fiend even planned to travel from his central London barracks to her home in Wales to commit the offences.
But he was actually chatting with an undercover police officer posing as the mother.
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Jarvis has now been jailed for 12 years for two counts of attempting to arrange the commission of a child sex offence.
Judge Adam Hiddleston told him “this was not a case of fantasy on your part”, and found the soldier was serious about raping the children.
He added: “I have no doubt whatsoever at the time you made the arrangements, you believed the children were real, a seven-year-old girl and a 10-month-old baby, you wanted to meet them and when you did, with the assistance of their mother, you intended to rape them.”
The judge said he read Jarvis’ messages “with horror” and found they betrayed his “cold and clinical” treatment of the children and willingness to “treat them simply as objects to satisfy your urges”.
Southwark Crown Court heard the offences happened in mid-January 2024 when Jarvis started chatting online with a woman who said she had two daughters – one aged seven and the other a 10-month-old baby.
Jarvis said he was “into girls” and began to arrange a meeting, agreeing he would drive from London to the woman’s home.
He quizzed the mother on her older daughter’s sexual experience, and was told she had previously been abused by two men.
Turning to the baby, Jarvis asked the mother to help him carry out the rape.
Jarvis had planned to travel to Wales in February 2024 but police then moved in to arrest him.
Lisa Wilson, representing Jarvis, told the court he was kicked out of the military after his convictions.
She said Jarvis was “at a low ebb” due to a “traumatic period” when he committed the offences.
The lawyer added: “The court will be asking itself why a man with an extremely positive military career found himself committing such disgusting offences.”
Jarvis, who was living at barracks in Hyde Park, denied the offences and was convicted at a trial.
He has been ordered to serve at least two-thirds of his 12-year prison term.
