A 72-year-old Scots man has gone missing in an 'out of character' disappearance.
03.05.2022 - 12:41 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A Scots paedophile drove 400 miles to Derbyshire with a balaclava, a knife and Viagra-style tablets to meet a 13-year-old girl he had groomed online.
Christopher Marshall, of Dundee, sent explicit photographs of his private parts to the victim, who turned out to be a decoy, and a second girl he thought was aged just 12.
Derbyshire Live reports the 60-year-old father-of-two told one of the youngsters that sex would "hurt the first time" but then be enjoyable.
She said she had run away from home so he drove from where he lived in Dundee to meet her with the items in his vehicle.
But when he arrived to meet Leah, the teen turned out to be decoy used by a self-styled paedophile hunter group who snare people who demonstrate a sexual interest in children.
Jailing Marshall for three-and-a-half years, Recorder Michael Auty QC said: "There is a real and genuine concern to protect children from those who seek sexual intercourse with them.
"There is a world of difference between those who fantasise online and those who go through with it.
"It is where people stop and you didn't. It is clear to me from the items you had with you in the car there was an intention to carry out a penetrative sexual offence with this girl if the opportunity arose.
"That she was a decoy and not a real child is mitigation."
Jon Fountain, prosecuting at Derby Crown Court, sitting at Nottingham Crown Court, said a paedophile vigilante group called Demon Hunters set up a decoy Facebook profile for a 12-year-old called Tia in September last year.
He said Marshall sent her a friend request which was accepted and the two began exchanging messages.
The prosecutor said the decoy told him she was unhappy at home and so he suggested she move in with him in Scotland,
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