A MAN aged 63 has been jailed for two years after he was snared by online paedophile hunters for sending naked pictures of himself to what he believed was a girl aged 13.

Gordon Hunter was confronted by members of the group and then arrested by the police, Bradford Crown Court heard today.

Recorder Alex Menary, told Hunter, a retired supermarket security guard, he would be failing in his public duty not to jail him.

Hunter, of Range Bank, Halifax, pleaded guilty to attempting to communicate with a child for sexual purposes by sending her pictures of his exposed penis.

He also admitted inciting a child aged 13 to engage in sexual activity, possession of indecent photographs of children and possession of extreme pornographic images of a person performing a sexual act with an animal. All the offences took place between April 13 and June 9, 2019.

Hunter told interviewing officers he was aware that he was speaking to a young adult woman. It was just ‘role playing.’ Ken Green said in mitigation that he was deeply ashamed.

He had worked hard all his life as a supermarket security guard and had caused his wife and family great distress.

Recorder Menary ordered Hunter to sign on the sex offender register for ten years.