A pervert turned up hoping to meet a schoolgirl for sexual activity after offering to buy her alcohol and underwear and telling her to keep it a secret from her mum.
John Vanstone, 63, who has previous convictions for indecent images offences, engaged in sexually explicit chat online with what he thought was a 14-year-old. Fortunately it was a fake profile being run by vigilantes, who snared him.
Newcastle Crown Court heard Vanstone made contact with a profile called Megan on the Meetville app on February 6 this year. The profile, being operated by the Child Online Safety Team, said she was 18 but he was told in the first message that she was 14.
