A Wroughton man found himself caught in a paedophile hunters sting after sending explicit messages and pictures to what he believed to be teenage girls.
The man in his fifties ad been messaging someone he believed to be the girl, but was confronted by members of a paedophile hunter group COP – Catching Online Predators.
After the sting yesterday afternoon, broadcast live on Facebook, the group called the police, who the man.
A Wiltshire Police spokesperson said: “We can confirm that we’ve arrested a 51-year-old man from the Wroughton area on suspicion of arranging or facilitating the commission of a child sex offence.
“He has been released on bail pending further enquiries.”
A spokesperson for Catching Online Predators told The Swindonian “We give up our time time to catch these to try and keep children safe online.”
