Ayr sex offender sent Snapchat messages to undercover police

A SEX offender was caught sending indecent messages to a ’13-year-old girl’ – who was in fact an undercover police officer. Christopher Bradley admitted sending the sexual messages after telling the ‘child’ he was a ‘cuddler’. He turned on his heels and bolted back inside the court building when he was pictured after pleading guilty at Ayr Sheriff Court on Monday, November 24. The 55-year-old admitted sending sexual communication to what he thought was a child aged between 13 and 16 at his address in Montgomerie Terrace on August 21 last year. Bradley admitted sending messages to a person he believed to be a child, who had attained the age of 13 but not 16, ‘intentionally and for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification or of humiliating, distressing or alarming’ them. null (Image: Newsquest) The Procurator Fiscal depute said: “On August 21, 2024 an undercover online operative set up a profile on Snapchat. “They came across [Bradley], [his] Snapchat was utilised with [his] mobile number to set up. “He described himself as a 43-year-old male, thereafter the undercover officer described themself as a 13-year-old female. “He said ’13, you must be pretty open-minded’.” The court heard that in conversations with
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