Wolf Pack vigilante mob hunt alleged paedophile in suburban stand-off

Riot police had to hold back an angry mob as they tried to confront a suspected pervert on their residential West Lothian street.

Videos shared on social media showed demonstrators chanting as the man hid in his Armadale home, while a car was torched nearby in Mayfield Drive.

A vigilante group of paedophile hunters called the Wolf Pack are understood to have filmed the stand-off about 7:25pm on Tuesday after launching an online sting to snare the suspect.

A 34-year-old father-of- 0 An angry mob descended on the Armadale home two said: “My kids stay just streets from there and I dread to think they’ve played down that road.”

Up to 30 police officers, some in helmets and protective gear, were seen linking arms to prevent hundreds of protesters from getting to the house.

Two children, aged eight and nine, are also believed to have been in the house at the time.

“I think if there hadn’t been such a large police presence then I think it could’ve been a different story altogether,” a witness said.

“It could’ve kicked off. If there hadn’t been police there, I think people would’ve taken matters into their own hands.

“Although he’s been charged, he can count himself lucky police were there to help him.”

Wolf Pack Hunters UK style themselves as a “community response” to what they call an “epidemic” of child grooming.