A FORMER RAF serviceman recruited two 15-year-old girls on the internet to make a pornographic video -- and was caught after police raided his home.

John Doswell, 54, of James Street, Great Harwood, got e-mails from the girls and filmed them in a Blackpool hotel room.

He met them again the following day and took them on sand dunes in the resort to take more photographs of them wearing leather clothing, and met them later at their school to pay them £40 each.

Doswell admitted two offences of taking indecent pictures of children after making a video of two 15-year-old Lytham girls. Blackpool magistrates heard how former RAF serviceman had posted an advertisement on the internet asking for models interested in posing for the video.

Doswell, who lives in Germany, got e-mailed replies from the girls and after visiting his family in Great Harwood on April 1, went to meet them at St Annes Pier.

From there he took the girls to a hotel in central Blackpool and made a video.

The video was discovered on October 31 at an address in Blackburn by police executing a search warrant on an unrelated matter.

Chrissie Hunt, prosecuting, said the girls had told Doswell all along that they were 15 and after filming he dropped them off in the vicinity of their homes and paid them £40 each.

She said: "He said he believed them to be 16 but they were role playing to be 15. On November 2 he was formally charged and no reply was given."

Andrew Church-Taylor, defending, said Doswell had originally been in contact with only one of the girls and encouraged her to bring a friend along for safety. He said: "There was no coercion or corruption. Doswell did not touch the girls apart from pushing their heads together."

If released, Doswell would go to Germany to care for his wife who was sick and disabled and had no one looking after her.

Magistrates decided the case warranted the presentation of pre-sentencing reports. Doswell was released on bail and ordered to reappear on January 16 for sentencing.