THIS is the man who plastered towns in Essex with posters in an attempt to lure young women into the seedy world of sex parties and Pounds 100-an-hour "escorting".

Signs appeared across Chelmsford and Witham advertising for girls interested in making "huge earnings", stating: "No experience necessary".

The Chronicle called the phone number and invited the man, who called himself Freddie, to a meeting with an undercover reporter posing as an aspiring glamour model.

Private meetings During that meeting, which was secretly recorded, Freddie made it clear that he was attempting to take on girls for whom he would set up private meetings with men, in exchange for 20 per cent of their takings.

When pressed by our reporter on what the job would entail, he replied: "What? You've slept with fellas haven't you? "You want to make some money don't you? What are you going to do?" Freddie, who claimed to be from east London but said he had strong links with the Essex area, at first avoided answering questions about precisely what the job would involve.

But he eventually let his guard down during the hourlong meeting in Witham on Sunday.

He said: "I have hundreds of girls working for me all across London and Essex.

"How it works is, once you are on my books, I will get work for you. You will go to the jobs and collect payment in cash, and put 20 per cent into my bank account."

He claimed to be able to arrange escorting work, paying Pounds 100 an hour, in addition to organising "parties", for which a girl would be paid Pounds 350.

He described these parties as "full-on parties - proper adult parties, swingers parties" and said they could involve one girl entertaining five men at the same time.