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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Adam Everett & John Scheerhout

Laughing pervert told paedophile hunter posing as a girl to practice kissing using apples and oranges

A pervert who instructed a paedophile hunter posing as a 13-year-old girl to practice kissing using apples and oranges laughed as a judge sent him to jail.

Andrew Carter, from Warrington, was also caught telling the supposed teen 'age is just a number'. But, unbeknown to him, the self-confessed 'loner who doesn't get any attention from women' was actually being snared by a paedophile hunter sting.

A court heard that the 42-year-old first initiated contact with a decoy account run by Saving Our Children Online on the app Wink in September last year. David Birrell, prosecuting, described how, when told that he was communicating with a girl aged 13, Carter responded by saying that 'age was just a number', the Liverpool Echo reports.

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