Paedo drove 400 miles with balaclava, knife and Viagra-style tablets to meet girl, 13

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knife and Viagra-style tablets in his car when he arrived in Derbyshire to meet a child who did not exist.Marshall, who had also sent explicit photographs of his private parts a second 12-year-old girl, was caught in Chesterfield by a self-styled paedophile hunter group.The dad-of-two from Dundee believed 'Leah' had run away from home but the teen turned out to be decoy and police were called to the arranged meeting place.Jailing Marshall for three-and-a-half years, Recorder Michael Auty QC said: "There is a real and genuine concern to protect children from those who seek sexual intercourse with them.

There is a world of difference between those who fantasise online and those who go through with it."It is where people stop and you didn't.

It is clear to me from the items you had with you in the car there was an intention to carry out a penetrative sexual offence with this girl if the opportunity arose.

That she was a decoy and not a real child is mitigation." Jon Fountain, prosecuting at Derby Crown Court, sitting at Nottingham Crown Court, said a paedophile vigilante group called Demon Hunters set up a decoy Facebook profile for a 12-year-old called Tia in September last year.