Someone on my friends list posted a video of one of these pedophile hunters. It was a sting in my home town. It is about 20 minutes long and was basically; group of the hunters approach guy as hes exiting a shop, present him with the chat printouts, and ask him why he did it.
It was a really uncomfortable watch, and i stopped watching it about half way through. The guy seemed to have "mental difficulties", and there where about 4 or 5 of the hunters. This guy seemed to admit to saying the things he did on the chat logs, and those were pretty sick. But In the end arent the hunters are lying because it is them who are posing as 8 year old girls? Is this type of evidence admissible in court? On the face of it the hunters seemed to falsely imprison (albeit on the street), intimidate and threaten a vulnerable person.
There was an article in BBC breakfast news a few months ago saying that these hunters where now being accepted by the police. I did a quick google search but found this instead;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-43356565This is probably for a different thread. The facebook comments on the video all seemed to be infavour of the hunters, one comment was calling the hunters out, but the response was "what would you think if it was your 11 year old daughter".