Paedophile hunters storm squalid home of suspected pervert

So-called 'paedophile hunters' have released footage of the moment they confronted a man suspected of grooming at his squalid flat.
The 46-year-old suspect is said to have exchanged messages with someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl, in which he asked her to come to his flat for sex.
But the messages were in fact being sent to vigilantes from the group Not of Normal Criminal Element, who confronted him at his home in Lincoln before handing the information over to the police.
The video shows Shane Brannigan, a member of the vigilante group, knocking on the suspect's door before going in to stop him 'deleting things'.
The film shows the suspect's front room littered with packs of medication, women's lingerie and empty bottles and cans. The group claim he was 'off his face'.
The vigilante group claim the man repeatedly sent messages to someone he thought was 'Emily', a 14-year-old girl, and sent her his address so she could visit him.
They claimed he told her he would 'take her virginity', asked her to call him 'daddy' and suggested they could 'film ourselves'.
The man insists he met the decoy on an adult website and he claims 'nothing was going to happen' and their chat was 'fantasy'.
The end of the footage shows police arriving at the address.
The vigilante group say officers took copies of the chat logs of the suspect's messages with the decoy.
A spokeswoman for Lincolnshire Police said: 'A 46-year-old man has been charged with an offence under the Criminal Attempts Act.'
He is due to appear at Lincoln Magistrates' Court tomorrow.