Gazing into a camera, this is a Teesside paedophile who was tricked into thinking he was meeting a 14-year-old girl.
Pervert John Rudd, from Stockton, was snared on Newcastle’s Millennium bridge by vigilantes from Dark Justice.
The 57-year-old was stunned to see the two men waiting to greet him, instead of the teenage girl he met online.
Rudd thought he was meeting a 14-year-old called Donna after chatting to her on online dating website Badoo.
He initially thought the profile belonged to an adult woman but continued having sexual conversations when he was told he was underage, Newcastle Crown Court heard.
And he couldn’t refuse the chance to meet up when the girl told him her mother was away.
But Rudd was trapped on film by two men from Dark Justice, who turned up to shop him to police.
He admitted attempted to meet a child following sexual grooming and appeared at Newcastle Crown Court on Wednesday.
Prosecutor Alec Burns said: “The case is a little unusual in that the actual people with whom he was communicating were two men in their 20s, members of a group Dark Justice.
“They effectively set up a trap to trap paedophiles.”
Rudd asked questions about the girl’s underwear and suggested she wear none when they met up, Mr Burns added.
Rudd, of Appleton Road, Eastbourne estate, in Stockton, initially thought he was chatting to a 19-year-old woman.
He was granted bail and will be sentenced in March.
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