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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Oliver Clay

Paedophile sent 'girl, 11' naked pictures and arranged to meet up in car park

A social media cyber groomer drove to Widnes with children's underwear in the boot to meet an '11-year-old girl'.

Ethan Birch, 20, turned up at the car park of the DCBL Stadium on Lower House Lane, Widnes, on Friday, January 21, with “knickers and crop tops” and a change of boxer shorts for himself after 10 days of messages online including sexual incitement and sending obscene images of himself.

Unbeknown to Birch, of Little Lowes Meadow, Lowton, Warrington, the supposed child was really an adult decoy out to snare paedophiles preying on the young online.

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