Moment former policeman, 63, is confronted by paedophile hunters who caught him targeting '13-year-old girl' online as he is jailed for three and a half years
This is the moment a former policeman is confronted on his front doorstep by investigators who caught him targeting young girls online.
Phillip Thompson, 63, sent explicit images to paedophile hunters posing as a 13-year-old child, asked whether she was 'good girl' and arranged to meet near a Morrisons supermarket.
He failed to make the meeting but was later ambushed at home in Royton, near Oldham, Greater Manchester and detained in a citizen's arrest which was streamed live on Facebook and subsequently posted on YouTube.
It emerged police had also been investigating him in a similar sting operation via the Kik and IB messaging services.
Thompson who worked for Greater Manchester Police as a detention officer, admitted attempting to entice a child to meet following grooming, attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child, attempting to entice a child to engage in sexua ..
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