A pervert who thought he was preying on a 14-year-old girl online had fallen into a trap set by vigilantes.
Craig Davison believed he had been chatting with a schoolgirl from Gateshead called Paige on Facebook but it was a decoy profile set up by paedophile hunters. Newcastle Crown Court heard he asked for pictures of her and send videos of himself carrying out a sex act.
Now the 35-year-old, who has no previous convictions, has been given a suspended prison sentence after he admitted attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child in December 2021.
