UK- A musician who performs under the name Harmonica Mac has been jailed for four years after having sex with a 13-year-old girl he met on the internet.

Ian McInally, 42, started a sexual relationship with the girl, who claimed to be 19, after contacting her on the social networking site MySpace.

McInally, of the blues band Harmonica Mac and the Groovecats, admitted having unlawful sex on various occasions.

He was jailed for four years at the High Court sitting at Kilmarnock.

He also admitted taking indecent pictures of the girl in sexually provocative poses, making a video of them having sex together and keeping a stash of child pornography at his home.

Online messages between McInally and his victim became sexual within a week and they exchanged suggestive text messages, the court heard.

A month after their first contact they met at Woolworths in Dingwall and the following day went to Blackmuir Woods, near Strathpeffer, in Ross and Cromarty.

The girl told her parents she was staying with a friend but in reality McInally picked her up in his car and drove her to woods on the Brahan Estate in Ross-shire for weekly sex sessions.

McInally was caught after his victim told a friend who then told a teacher, and police were contacted.

He told officers that at an early point he knew her age and she knew he was 42, adding: “It was like no difference with being with somebody that’s of a legal age.”

McInally, of Invergordon, also told the girl that if anyone found out what was going on between them, his life would be over.

Murray Macara, defending, told the court that a psychiatric report described McInally as a “lonely, isolated individual who has low self-esteem”.

He had developed mental health issues, obsessive compulsive and eating disorders since giving up work as a scaffolder for health reasons in 2002.

Mr Macara said: “He does acknowledge the seriousness of the situation. He has clearly strayed across a barrier that is unforgivable.”

The judge, Lady Dorrian, said the social inquiry report was concerning in itself, but the joint sex offenders project report was “considerably more concerning” because it came from a specialist unit.

The report stated that experts doubted whether McInally really appreciated the affects of his conduct on the complainer or her family.

McInally was given an extended four-year jail term with three years supervision on his release. His name was added to the sex offenders register and sent to Scottish ministers as a person unsuitable for working with children.

Jailing him, Lady Dorrian told McInally: “I consider an extended sentence is necessary for the protection of the public.”