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Kyle Catmull
Age:
21 Profession:
SailorTeam:
TRAP Exposed:
20-02-2019 Location:
Fulstow A Royal Navy sailor has been given a suspended sentence after being caught by so-called paedophile hunters who posed online as a 15-year-old girl.
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A Royal Navy sailor has been given a suspended sentence after being caught by so-called paedophile hunters who posed online as a 15-year-old girl.
Kyle Catmull, 21, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming.
He was detained in July 2018 in Fareham, Hampshire, by members of the group, which posted a video of the encounter online.
Catmull was given a 24-month suspended sentence.
Portsmouth Crown Court heard he was a few weeks from passing out from his training at HMS Collingwood in July 2018 when he went on a legitimate dating website Badoo.
Prosecutor Daniel Sawyer told the court that within six messages, the “girl” told him she was 15.
The conversation moved to WhatsApp and became sexualised before the pair arranged to meet at an Asda store in Fareham, with Catmull bringing a condom.
On his arrival he was confronted by members of Trap and later arrested.
Judge William Ashworth said Catmull “should have ceased contact” with the girl when he realised she was under age but had shown “evident remorse”.
Catmull, of Louth, Lincolnshire, was ordered to sign on the sex offenders register.