The founder of an LGBTQ+ group who gave talks in schools said his alleged conversations about kidnapping and sexually assaulting children were “fantasy” and “taboo” and that he was “smoking too much”.
Stephen Ireland, 40, who co-founded Pride in Surrey in 2018, and David Sutton, 27, a volunteer with the organisation, are accused of “targeting children for their sexual proclivities” between 2022 and 2024, prosecutors say.
