Gardener, 54, armed with sex toy and lubrication caught trying to meet 13-year-old Leeds 'girl'

A 54-year-old landscape gardener told a 13-year-old girl he wanted to give her sex education lessons before turning up to meet with a bag containing a sex toy, lubrication and alcopop drinks.
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The profile Ronald Malcolm Barton had in fact been communicating with was a decoy set up by paedophile hunter group, Net Justice, who confronted him when he turned up in Leeds at what he thought was the girl’s home address.

Barton, of Mill Croft Estate, Otley, was hooked by the group’s online profile, purporting to be a 13-year-old by the name of Poppy, in July of last year.

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