Paedophile hunters’ target invited ‘girl of 13’ to attend an orgy

Paedophile hunters posing as a 13-year-old girl snared a man who went on to send her explicit videos and invite her to an orgy.

Raymond Boyne, 64, asked the decoy whether her mother was home and encouraged her to delete her messages.

But the communications had all been logged by a voluntary child protection group, which livestreamed a confrontation with Boyne on his Elgin doorstep over social media before passing its evidence to the police.

Boyne appeared at Inverness Sheriff Court to plead guilty to attempting to cause an older child to look at a sexual image and attempting to communicate indecently with an older child.

Fiscal depute Alison Young said the case had come about following a joint operation by nonpolice affiliated voluntary child protection groups using a decoy profile on social media.

“Group members create decoy social media profiles of children aged between 10 and 15 years of age. They leave them dormant until contacted,” she added.

Mrs Young said that in January one of the profiles, which had a profile picture of a “clearly teenage girl”, received a friend request from Boyne, who began to send messages.

The paedophile hunters downloaded all the conversations, before confronting Boyne on the doorstep of his home in Forteath Street, Elgin.

Mrs Young told the court that when questioned about his actions, Boyne said he was “guilty” and “ashamed of himself ”.

He added: “I should have deleted it straight away.”

Following the doorstep confrontation, a record of the decoy operation was passed to police and Boyne was subsequently arrested and charged.

Raymond Boyne is confronted by paedophile hunters.