Sports Direct manager caught by vigilantes after trying to lure '13-year-old schoolgirl' to his home for sex

A paedophile who thought he was luring a 13-year-old schoolgirl to his home for sex was confronted by Facebook vigilantes and arrested by police.



Father-of-one Daniel Pickering was a respected Sports Direct manager at the high street store during the day.



But outside of work he spent a month sending vile messages to a Facebook profile that he thought belonged to a girl called Amber.



He told her his real name from the outset, engaged in explicit chat and sent footage of himself performing a sex act, convinced she was a Liverpool schoolgirl.



In a bid to lure her into sex, he offered to give her cocaine and alcohol if she met him in person.



But in fact Pickering, from Oldham, was being lured into a trap himself - by a fake profile set up by a group of so-called paedophile hunters, who went by the Facebook name of ‘Keeping Kids Safe’.