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Alexander Lawrie

Edinburgh man who thought he was meeting girl, 13, was greeted by hunter group

An Edinburgh man who was caught in a paedophile hunter sting earlier this year has been jailed.

Gary Laver sent sexual comments and images of his penis to who he believed was a 13-year-old girl called Sophie after contacting her profile online over a four week period.

Laver, 59, was lured into meeting up with the schoolgirl in the capital’s city centre but when he arrived in his red Jaguar he was confronted by paedo hunter group Protecting Kids Scotland.

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