David Hanson passed out during meeting with Dark Justice in Newcastle
    Thought he would be meeting 'Amanda' after contacting profile on Badoo
    He had been exchanging explicit messages in days before the meeting
    But it was organised by group and he has now received community order





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A pervert collapsed live on camera when he turned up to meet a 14-year-old girl he had been grooming online - but was instead confronted by a vigilante group.
David Hanson, 45, from Benwell, Newcastle, passed out when he realised that the girl he believed he had been communicating with was in fact online paedophile hunters Dark Justice. 
Hanson - who has since lost his job and his home - had been exchanging explicit messages in the days before the meeting, which he attended with a rucksack containing a toothbrush, toothpaste and condoms.
Newcastle Crown Court was told by prosecutor Anne Richardson how Hanson contacted the fake profile of an 18-year-old girl called Amanda set up by Dark Justice on dating website Badoo.
On July 17 last year Dark Justice got a notification that Amanda had received a message from Hanson, who had boasted about having a job as a football referee and said that killer Raoul Moat was his ‘hero’.
Miss Richardson said how the vigilante group had replied as Amanda and told Hanson she had lied about her age and was 14 years old.
Hanson exchanged mobile numbers with Amanda so they could communicate on What's App, and between July 18 to 21, there were 750 messages passed between them.



Explicit messages


What's App conversation: Hanson (left, outside Newcastle Crown Court last year) - who has since lost his job and his home - had been exchanging explicit messages (right) in the days before the meeting