Mark Sutherland was snared after sending explicit pictures to what he believed was a 13-year-old boy.
A convicted paedophile who was snared by a vigilante group is to have his case examined at the UK Supreme Court.
The court defines"paedophile hunters" as self-appointed groups of vigilantes who impersonate children in order to expose people whom they consider to be sexual predators. But the person Sutherland was talking to was in fact Paul Devine, a member of the group Groom Resistance Scotland.Sutherland went to meet someone he thought was a young boy at Partick Station
Yet according to HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland almost half of online grooming cases result from the activities of vigilante groups.in its report in February 2020 In that case the sheriff said the means used to induce the accused, known only as PHP, into engaging in an exchange of messages amounted to"fraud".
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