This is the moment paedophile hunters caught a 31-year-old man after he turned up to meet a child for sex.
Mark Wall was carrying condoms in his pocket when he arrived at a city train station to have an illegal liaison with a 13-year-old girl.
Newcastle Crown Court heard Wall thought he had been chatting to the youngster over the internet last February.
But in reality he had been snared by Dark Justice, an undercover organisation that aims to expose adults looking for illegal contact with children online.
Paedophile hunters caught Mark Wall, 31, at Newcastle Central Station where he thought he was meeting a 13-year-old girl for sex
The court heard Wall had sent a explicit picture to the profile he thought was the girl and made illicit suggestions.
He asked if the teen ‘wanted to have sex’ and discussed ‘where they would meet to have sex’.
When Wall arrived at Newcastle Central Station to meet the teenager, he was met by a member of Dark Justice.
Prosecutor Michael Bunch told the court: ‘He describes the defendant just standing there, he didn’t try to make off or resist, he stood and waited.
‘He said he had made a mistake and he would not have done anything. Officers arrived and arrested the defendant.’
Wall, of North Shields, North Tyneside, pleaded guilty to attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming.
Mr Bunch added: ‘Communication indicates sexual activity was intended. There was a number of postings to that effect.’
Recorder Eric Elliott QC sentenced Wall to 16 months imprisonment, suspended for two years, with programme requirements and sex offender treatment.
Wall, from North Shields, North Tyneside, even had condoms in his pockets when Dark Justice members caught him. He was sentenced to 16 months in jail suspended for two years after the court heard he was a ‘lonely, sad individual’
Wall must sign the sex offenders register and abide by a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for ten years.
The judge told him: ‘It is not only in your interest but, of course, in the public interest that you not be sent to prison today and rather a sentence be imposed which attempts to continue to put you on the right track.’
The judge said Wall had not realised the seriousness of his behaviour at the time due to his ‘inadequacies’ and added: ‘Full realisation of what you have done has come home to you.’
Christopher Knox, defending, said Wall is a ‘lonely, sad individual’ and told the judge: ‘I would invite you to think everyone would be better protected if he had the benefit of probation care’.