PEDO NEWS!!!!!

UK / EU

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6572245/Eight-men-killed-snared-paedophile-hunting-vigilantes.html?ito=social-facebook

EIGHT MEN HAVE KILLED THEMSELVES AFTER BEING 'SNARED BY PAEDOPHILE-HUNTING VIGILANTES THEN EXPOSED ONLINE'

• At least eight men have taken their own lives after being branded paedophiles

-They have committed suicide after being shamed online by vigilante groups

-The men died within days of being filmed by so-called 'paedophile hunters'

In the past six years, eight men committed suicide in the wake of being shamed on the internet and social media in 'paedophile hunter stings', according to the Victoria Derbyshire show.

Groups including Dark Justice, Guardians Of The North, Huntz 2 Exposure, The Guardian Angels and Catching Online Predators often post videos - some broadcast live - of the men they 'snare' to thousands of followers online.

The daughter of a man who took his life after being exposed by such a group told the BBC programme that she and her daughter have received rape threats.

She was also forced to bury her father hundreds of miles away, without a funeral, amid fears vigilantes would turn up.

The BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme spoke to Lesley, whose father took his life without any charges being brought by police.

She told the show vigilante groups are hindering justice.

Her father Michael Duff was questioned by police after footage allegedly showing him attempting to meet a 15-year-old for sex was posted online.

It is understood the 67-year-old was filmed in July 2015 by a paedophile vigilante group known as 'True Justice'.

Mr Duff was questioned on suspicion of attempting to meet a girl under 16 following grooming and was later released on bail.

His body was found two days later at his home in Tyne and Wear.

The case was later referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission and officers contacted those who uploaded the video and asked them to remove it as it 'formed part of a live investigation'.

The True Justice website later deleted the video.

Lesley told the BBC that 'paedophile hunters' needed to be made aware of the consequences of uploading such footage.

She said: 'My friend said, 'look, I don't really know how to say this to you Lesley, but there's a video going round on Facebook - it's your dad'.

'It was on Facebook and I could already see mutual friends had viewed it, so there was nothing I could do.'

She told her daughter, then 15, 'your grandad's a paedophile' - something she later regretted.

Someone she knew then posted a video of him being carried from his house to an ambulance in a body bag on Facebook.