The people who do this are not the good guys. They are scum who should be prosecuted and jailed for a good long time pour encourager les autres.
An innocent man has revealed how his life fell apart and he experienced suicidal thoughts after being accused of being a paedophile by a Facebook ‘hunting’ gang.
Darrell Edmondson, who has since been exonerated, was confronted by a group in July who broadcast the two-and-a-half-hour encounter live on the internet.
The 49-year-old, from Tunbridge Wells, was arrested by Kent Police before authorities launched an investigation.
It has since concluded he was innocent and police will not be taking any further action against him.
They should now go after the paedo hunters at the very least for wasting police time. And that’s the minimum. These people are allowed to operate with impunity. What they do is entrapment -even assuming that the person they are trapping is guilty. In this case, there was false imprisonment, which is a criminal offence. We have a police force and they operate by strict rules regarding evidence with good reason. The paedo hunters are nothing more than cowboys who have in this instance trampled over an innocent man, ruining his life. There needs to be payback for this. They need to suffer the consequences of their actions.
The paedophile hunting group Strike UK has since made a public apology after it targeted Mr Edmondson.
Strike UK published an apology on its Facebook page which said: ‘Darrell Edmondson, Tunbridge Wells. Sting date July 31, 2020.
‘We have just been informed that the person named above was set up by an unknown person and that Darrell Edmondson is innocent.
‘I would like to give our sincere apology to Darrell and his family for everything and I will make full effort into resolving this.
‘The police have issued a refuse to charge notice. I accept full responsibility.’
Not good enough. You have no business doing this in the first place. Are you going to compensate him for his losses?
Asked if he would take legal action against the group, which has taken down the video, he said: ‘I don’t know really for the simple reason I have never been in this situation before.’
Actually, that would be a good idea if a lawyer can do the necessary pro bono. Something needs to be done about these people and taking on this case would do everyone a favour as it would set the precedent. They have destroyed this man’s life. He has lost his job and been shunned by family and friends because of their incompetence.
These people are to due legal process what diane flabbot is to rigorous mathematical analysis.
This utterly toxic sheet sniffing, curtain twitching wannabe block warden mentality is cancer on cancer on cancer to a properly just society.
That said, given what the supposed legal system is these days, while I don’t see shades of grey, I do see a slight off white.
While these people should be hammered into the ground, the selective legal system we have needs to take a long hard look at itself. That, alas, will not happen.
Oh, I make no apologies for our shambolic legal system other than that it is probably better than the alternatives out there. Low bar, I accept.
Decades of failing to deal with foreign Crims, Rotherham style gang rapes, political corruption, banksters, county lines, terrorism etc while twitter hate and special protection for special interest pretty much makes mob injustice certain…
Guess it was only a matter of time. In all honesty though, they may well be taking their lead from MSM, there’s plenty of history of conviction by newspaper.
Was he a Paediatrician?
Not even that excuse. He went onto an adult dating site and thought he was talking to a woman who wanted to arrange a meet.