Vile predator travelled to Newcastle to meet girl, 14, and said he would ‘keep her for five days’
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA vile predator travelled to Newcastle in the hope of meeting up with someone he thought was a 14 year old girl — and then said he would ‘keep her for five days’.
Binis Varghese, 38, did not go through with his rendezvous, after chatting with ‘Paige’ online for several weeks. Varghese, a father and husband living on Townsley Grove in Ashton, contacted the profile on social media site Scout.
Initially, Paige - who was actually the invention of so-called paedophile hunter group Child Online Safety Team - listed her age online as 18.
However, after the two exchanged pleasantries, she revealed she was actually only 14 years of age on October 1 last year. READ MORE:ITV This Morning slapped with hundreds of official complaints over Spin To Win energy bills change Despite knowing the profile was that of a child, Varghese - who appeared in court with an interpreter, having only moved to the UK two months before the offending began - continued to have ‘inappropriate’ conversations with her, Minshull Street Crown Court heard today (September 8).
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