A council worker has been sacked and fined £500 after luring a 30-strong mob of violent self-styled ‘paedophile hunters’ to the address of a sex offender.
A council worker has been sacked and fined £500 after luring a 30-strong mob of violent self-styled ‘paedophile hunters’ to the address of a sex offender.
The offender had to be rehoused again due to the incident, which risked making him ‘unpredictable and more likely to commit offences’, the court heard. The man had asked for a food parcel to be sent to his emergency housing as it was too dangerous for him to go to shopping, and his address was shared on the chat.
That same evening, the sex offender called police to say around 30 people were at his door trying to break in, and had been warned to ‘get out now or they would kill him and burn down the property’. Helen Chapman, mitigating, said the sex offenders were people who had been found guilty and had ‘done their time and come out’ of prison.
Judge Bury told her: ‘You are very lucky about that. The offence that you have committed is, in my view, a very serious one that would have carried a sentence of imprisonment.’
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