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Man Who Led Fatal Attack On Dad Over False Claims Now Pleads For Freedom

Albert Thorn, the self-appointed vigilante who orchestrated the brutal to***re and execution of an innocent man he wrongly accused of child ab*se is now pleading with the courts to let him go.

The 60-year-old, once the proud leader of a gang of so-called “p**dophile hunters,” is appealing his conviction and life sentence for the m*rder of Bradley Lyons—a father of eight who was lured to his demise by his own wife, falsely accused, and subjected to unimaginable pain over a lie.

“You took his life away deliberately and heartlessly,” Supreme Court Justice Andrew Tinney told Thorn in 2023, sentencing him to life with a minimum of 32 years. 

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