Watch as paedophile is snared and confronted by internet vigilante group

45-year-old Roger Lee travelled 300 miles to meet a girl he knew to be just 14 but she turned out to be a trap set by a vigilante group.

16:11 02 February 2015

An internet vigilante group was successful in putting a previously convicted paedophile back behind bars after he agreed to meet a girl he believed to be just 14 years old.

45-year-old Roger Lee travelled 300 miles from Wiltshire to Newcastle to meet the ‘girl’ but when he got to the meeting place, he was confronted by members of Dark Justice who videotaped the whole encounter. Lee fled as soon as he realised that it was a trap. He was later jailed after a judge decided that he was a danger to children.

Judge Morris said: ‘You were caught by internet vigilantes, which is the best way of describing them, who pretended to be a female and you entered into a conversation with them on the internet.

‘It soon became apparent what they did was pretend the female was 14. You went for it. I am firmly of the view you are a dangerous individual to young children.’

Speaking following the hearing, members of Dark Justice said: ‘We want to prevent this sort of thing from happening, see a change in the law so that internet users have to identify themselves by credit card, something has to happen.

‘This sentence shows what we do works. We continue to do it.

‘The police reaction to what we are doing has been fine. They don’t exactly say “get on with it” but they take us seriously.’