22nd June, 2015
Suspected paedophile lured to house and had phone forcibly inserted into his bottom
"TWO people from East Lancashire have confessed to plotting to carry out an attack on a suspected paedophile in Burnley.
The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is said to have confessed to having indecent thoughts regarding a young girl.
He then suffered a serious assault as a consequence.
Sophie Louise Cooke, 21, of HS, Nelson, was originally charged with encouraging the commission of a scheduled offence, namely sexual assault, by sending a text to the victim, luring him to an address, to which she had pleaded not guilty.
But prosecutor Emma Kehoe was given permission at Burnley Crown Court to add an offence of conspiracy to commit assault, between March 5 and March 8 this year, to the indictment, which Cook admitted.
Her co-defendant Stephen Daniel Holmes, 23 of no fixed address, appeared before the court via a video link to Forest Bank Prison, near Salford.
Holmes, who was represented in court by defence counsel Simon Gurney, also admitted the conspiracy to assault charge and the theft of a mobile phone from the same victim."
http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/13345364.Suspected_paedophile_lured_into_attack_after_allegedly_confessing_indecent_thoughts_about_young_girl/?ref=twtrec
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