Vile predator travelled to Newcastle to meet girl, 14, and said he would ‘keep her for five days’

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A vile predator travelled to Newcastle in the hope of meeting up with someone he thought was a 14 year old girl — and then said he would ‘keep her for five days’.

Binis Varghese, 38, did not go through with his rendezvous, after chatting with ‘Paige’ online for several weeks. Varghese, a father and husband living on Townsley Grove in Ashton, contacted the profile on social media site Scout.

Initially, Paige - who was actually the invention of so-called paedophile hunter group Child Online Safety Team - listed her age online as 18.

However, after the two exchanged pleasantries, she revealed she was actually only 14 years of age on October 1 last year. READ MORE:ITV This Morning slapped with hundreds of official complaints over Spin To Win energy bills change Despite knowing the profile was that of a child, Varghese - who appeared in court with an interpreter, having only moved to the UK two months before the offending began - continued to have ‘inappropriate’ conversations with her, Minshull Street Crown Court heard today (September 8).