A BRAWL erupted at a shopping centre after a vigilante group of “paedophile hunters” confronted a man suspected of grooming a 14-year-old girl.
The 29-year-old man was met by the members of the group called “The Hunted One” at the Bluewater Shopping Centre in Kent, on Easter Sunday.
A Facebook Live video showed one of the group ask the suspect “You’re here to meet a child for sex, yeah?”
When questioned, the man denied the group’s suggestions and said that the girl, who he had been in contact with on an online chatroom, had told him she was aged “18 plus”.
Security guards from the shopping centre step in to prevent any further violence before police officers arrive.
Detective Chief Inspector Emma Banks, of Kent Police, said a 29-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of grooming.
She said: “I strongly discourage people taking the law into their own hands.”
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