Authorities now treat paedophiles who unwittingly groom vigilantes as if they had targeted genuine victims
just along from Newcastle’s law courts, the hunters await their prey. Every few minutes, a telltale ping alerts the two 20-something men to an incoming message. In the gap between chats, they scroll back through their greatest hits. “I really fancy you,” reads a message, sent to one of the men, who has been posing as a teenage girl. “You look like a naughty schoolgirl,” reads another. “People accuse us of entrapment,” says one of the men. “But these people trap themselves.
In the four years since then, they claim to have been responsible for 181 arrests and 106 convictions. The pair told the inquiry they are “concerned citizens”; they deny being vigilantes since they report suspected criminals rather than roughing them up.
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