Wythenshawe, thought he was speaking with a teenage boy under the account ‘ConfusedLad’ over a chat site. In reality it was an undercover officer, anonymised as ‘C’, who created the account on a site which had a minimum age requirement of 18, Manchester Crown Court heard.
After creating the account in February 2019, the account received a message ‘almost immediately’ from the defendant under the name ‘Manc’.The officer ‘almost immediately’ said he was 14 and told Fitzpatrick he was too young for him.He replied: “Fourteen, nice.
What makes you think you’re too young for me LOL.”The exchange grew more sexual with the 53-year-old asking the lad if he was gay and if he had performed sexual acts on his ‘school friends’.In July of that year.
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