The Vigilante: Episode 238

On Facebook crime sites, there always seem to be videos of 'stings', where a bewildered looking man is confronted by a group of people taking the law into their own hands - usually, when the man has travelled to meet face to face with someone he believed to be a young girl from the internet.

The podcast this week, from Essex in 2015, looks at the activity of one young group of vigilantes. I look at how in their aim to out 'perverts', they ended up using extreme violence which left one innocent man dead.....

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• Daughter of innocent dad killed by 'paedophile' vigilante mob demands justice as teens walk free - Mirror Online
• Murderer Chris Carroll, 20, is handed life prison sentence and will serve a minimum of 21 years for killing Darren Kelly in Pitsea | Echo (echo-news.co.uk)
• Darren Kelly killed by 'vigilante' group in Essex who wrongly accused him of paedophilia | Daily Mail Online
• Basildon stabbing: Desperate bid to save man before he died from knife attack revealed | London Evening Standard | Evening Standard
• Darren Kelly murder: Chris Carroll jailed for life - BBC News
• Darren Kelly: Man wrongly labelled a paedophile stabbed to death by 'teenage vigilantes' | The Independent | The Independent
• Basildon stabbing: Relatives of four people accused of murdering Darren Kelly weep as they appear at court | London Evening Standard | Evening Standard
• Murderer Chris Carroll, 20, is handed life prison sentence and will serve a minimum of 21 years for killing Darren Kelly in Pitsea | Echo (echo-news.co.uk)

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