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A 'sexual deviant' who arranged to meet a 'teenage boy' for sex was caught out by paedophile hunters.
Ian Leyland, from Blackpool, didn't realise the 'boy' was talking to on social media was actually an adult posing as a child for an online activist group, who then reported the registered sex offender to police.
Lancashire Constabulary said the 36-year-old 'engaged in highly explicit sexual conversations' despite being told the age of the person he thought he was speaking to.
Detectives said Leyland 'clearly poses a risk to males, especially teenage boys'.
The defendant, of Coronation Street, Blackpool, pleaded guilty to two counts of attempting to cause/incite a boy age 13 to 15 to engage in sexual activity – no penetration.
He also admitted an attempted breach of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for attempting to communicate with a boy under 15 and six breaches of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
