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.....Please support my sponsorsBest FiendsDownload best fiends free on the apple app store or google play. That friends without the r, best fiends.Beer52Go to www.beer52.com/truecrime now and pay just the £5.95 postage to get your free case of 8 craft beers, magazine and snack.Pre-order my book 'Gone Fishing' about the life and crimes of Angus Sinclair.GONE FISHING (PRE-ORDER) – Mango BooksCrimeCon UKGet discounted tickets for this event in September 2021 using the code: UKTChttps://www.crimecon.co.ukReferenced siteshttps://www.crimepublishingnetwork.com/www.uktruecrime.comwww.patreon.com/uktruecrimehttps://www.facebook.com/groups/UKTrueCrimeSourcesDaughter of innocent dad killed by 'paedophile' vigilante mob demands justice as teens walk free - Mirror OnlineMurderer 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 OnlineBasildon stabbing: Desperate bid to save man before he died from knife attack revealed | London Evening Standard | Evening StandardDarren Kelly murder: Chris Carroll jailed for life - BBC NewsDarren Kelly: Man wrongly labelled a paedophile stabbed to death by 'teenage vigilantes' | The Independent | The IndependentBasildon stabbing: Relatives of four people accused of murdering Darren Kelly weep as they appear at court | London Evening Standard | Evening StandardMurderer 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) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.