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Poppy Kennedy & Peter Diamond

Paedophile hunters snare pervert who tried to meet ‘girl’, 14, after sending her sexually explicit messages

A pervert who thought he was meeting up with a 14-year-old girl was snared by a group of paedophile hunters who confronted him before phoning the police.

Luke Porter arrived at a railway station to meet who he thought was a ‘young girl called Megan’ after texting sexually explicit messages to her over social media.

However, what he didn’t realise was that he was actually speaking to an undercover member of Newcastle Hunters, a vigilante group, which accosted him outside the train station.

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