A paedophile travelled from Greater Manchester to Wales after arranging to sexually abuse a young child - but was met by police officers instead.
Michael Crossley spent months chatting to someone he believed to be the girl's mother online and over the phone before making the trip from his home on Bury New Road, Radcliffe, Bury, to carry out his sick fantasies.
In fact he had been communicating with an undercover policewoman and officers were waiting for him when he arrived at the meeting point in Cardiff, WalesOnlines reports. READ MORE: 'No-one told me it was against the rules': Boris Johnson denies lying to Parliament over Downing Street lockdown parties Crossley would later claim that he was actually a paedophile hunter and had been trying to expose what he thought was a mother who was selling her daughter for sex.
But the 34-year-old failed to turn up for his trial to put that version of events before a jury last year and jurors convicted him in his absence.
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