A pervert who sent explicit messages to what he thought were two young girls is facing spending Christmas behind bars.
Joshua Allott believed he had been talking to a 12-year-old and a 14-year-old online but they were actually decoys set-up by paedophile hunters from The Child Online Safety Team. A court heard that the 30-year-old was confronted by members of the group after he arranged to meet one of the "girls" at a hotel in North Tyneside, having travelled more than 100 miles from his home in Rotherham.
Allott, of Burman Road, in Rotherham, was arrested at the scene - the Travelodge, in Cobalt Business Park, near the Silverlink - and appeared before Newcastle Magistrates' Court this week. He pleaded guilty to two counts of an adult attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child.
