Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A 'very isolated' man who arranged to meet a 'child' for sex was instead confronted by 'paedophile hunters' at Piccadilly station.
Hassen Mohammed, 25, has avoided jail after believing he was going to see a 14-year-old girl he messaged on Facebook. Mohammed had told the 'girl' he thought she was 'beautiful', and asked whether she'd had sex before.
After telling him she was 'scared' about meeting up, Mohammed said: "Yes I'm scared too, because you are 14. "It will be trouble for me." Manchester's courts are some of the busiest in the country with a vast array of cases heard every week.
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