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David Huntley

Blyth pervert sent explicit Snapchat video to police decoy posing as 13-year-old girl

A pervert sent sexual chats and pictures of himself to a police decoy he believed was an underage girl.

Samuel Mannion began chatting to what he thought was a 13-year-old child on Snapchat, and soon turned the conversation sexual. The 25-year-old then asked to see the girl's "bum and boobs" and sent explicit photographs and a lewd video of himself.

But what Mannion didn't know, was that he was in fact chatting to a police officer who had set up the fake Snapchat profile in order to capture perverts. Mannion, who had been sending the sex chats whilst in his then-girlfriend's home - was soon arrested.

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