A MAN who reported two pimps to police after being sent an underage girl has welcomed their conviction for sex trafficking.

One of the men – Anastassios Papas, who uses the alias Mark White – is on the run. Police last night vowed to track him down.

Papas and a Bicester man, who cannot be named, trafficked East European women to become prostitutes in Oxford. The second now faces a prison sentence.

Last night the 53-year-old customer, whose tip-off sparked the police inquiry said: “I found their details online and, after seeing pictures of women on the website, called them up.

“I couldn’t believe it when I saw the girl they sent around. She must have been 13 years old at most.

“There’s no way at all you could have mistaken her for an adult. It made me feel sick.

“I thought about what I should do and I realised I had no other option but to call the police.”

The customer, who lives in Oxford and cannot be named for legal reasons, added: “What they did is disgusting.

“I know I use prostitutes and that’s something that most men and women will find uncomfortable.

“But the trafficking of women, and especially children, is morally deplorable.”

The court cannot sentence Papas, 42, of Iffley Road, Oxford, in his absence.

At Oxford Crown Court yesterday he was convicted of two charges of trafficking women within the UK for sexual exploitation, one charge of conspiracy to traffic women within the UK for sexual exploitation and controlling prostitution for gain and converting £67,075 of criminal property.

The Bicester man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was convicted of one charge of conspiracy to traffic women within the UK for sexual exploitation and two charges of trafficking women into the UK for sexual exploitation.

He was cleared of trafficking women within the UK.

The unnamed man brought women to the UK from Romania.

Judge Gordon Risius told him to expect a “substantial custodial sentence” and remanded him in custody until he is sentenced on Friday, January 21.

Det Insp Simon Morton, who led the police investigation, said: “If Papas is reading this, I urge him to give himself up, as this isn’t something that’s going to be forgotten.

“We will track him down, however long it takes and wherever he is.”

Jurors in the case heard Papas placed adverts in the Oxford Journal “for about three-and-a-half years before his arrest” in January.

He also advertised in the Swindon Advertiser and free adverts publication Scoop, both owned by Newsquest, publisher of the Oxford Mail.

Newsquest has since banned all such advertising in its titles.