Our thanks to Jeff for this. An extract:

“In mitigation, barrister Jeremy James described Drury’s offending as an “uncharacteristic, fantastical relationship” as a form of “escaping the reality of her life”.

On sentencing, Judge James House KC said Drury had “failed to fully accept the magnitude of harm caused” to the boy.””

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