A predator who used social media to groom two underage schoolgirls has been jailed for 10 years.

Daniel Thomas, of Trefonen Way, Llandrindod Wells, groomed the two teenagers to "pester" them to share naked selfie pictures.

Cardiff Crown Court heard the now 24-year-old engaged in sexual activity with the schoolgirls, who cannot be named, despite a formal warning from police to stay away.

Prosecutor Craig Jones said: "One girl’s mother tried to stop contact between them. Police issued a notice, which forbade Thomas from having more contact with her daughter."

Thomas invited the second teenager, who was also under 16, to his home.

Mr Jones said: "They smoked cannabis together. She began to feel tired. It was then that they started touching and engaged in sexual activity."

Thomas was arrested in November 2015 in relation to the first schoolgirl but denied the sexual relationship.

He was again arrested in the December when allegations about the second girl came to light, which he again denied.

Cardiff Crown Court heard police found 17 indecent images of one of the girls in "various stages of undress" in a computer folder named "well well."

He pleaded guilty before his trial to seven counts of sexual activity with a child, inciting a child to engage in sexual intercourse, possessing indecent photographs of a child and possession of cannabis.

Andrew Davies, defending, said: "He is 24, but perhaps in relation to his maturity, he is far younger."

Judge Thomas Crowther QC said Thomas had been arrested over a "very similar scenario" with another teenager just weeks before he met the two girls.

Judge Crowther told Thomas: "You had effectively been warned off, but you simply continued thinking only of yourself and your pleasure.

"Whatever your level of maturity, you have an adult sexual appetite."

Thomas was jailed for 10 years, and given restraining orders preventing him contacting his two victims as well as a sexual harm prevention order.