Kieran Creaven at it again..

I haven’t read the entire thread and don’t know if this has been said already.

I think we need new standards of sentencing in this country. Why should someone who abused little children and who didn’t help identify his victims get remission? Sex offenders and people who abuse children or the elderly and who didn’t admit or help the investigation should also be denied remission on their sentence. Let them serve the lot imo.

Paddy was found not guilty, that verdict didn't suit many many people

If you asked me where our opposing views can be compromised on this subject I would say that if these people.were to perform this "sting" they would do so without the publication on Facebook live similar and any public identification of a suspect.

By all means after a conviction publish what you wish, that would be more acceptable to me. But I can say with reasonable confidence it wouldnt suit these people. Because as already mentioned it's more clicks and likes they're after

You can keep people honest by recording it and giving it to the gardai and as I said publish after conviction. But the consequences of inappropriate publication ie, publishing the identity of someone not found guilty, or a mistaken identity for me is too great.

These guys are vigilantes taking the law into their own hands. They dont give a **** about honesty.

It was a very interesting but graphic article. I thought it was good the way they showed the professional work colleague side and the nasty side too.

Shows you could easily be working alongside someone and have no idea what they are up to.

Its common sense. Vigilante groups are by their nature already taking the law into their own hands. The work they do is based on dishonestly.

Maybe you could answer my question.

If someone support paedo hunters and doesnt support the rule of law wheres the boundaries - why not just vigilantism for everything? Why have a police force at all?

Those paedo hunters are absolute scumbags.

In case you missed it earlier - scumbaggery of the highest order:

"The Daemon Hunter vigilante who targeted Peter in Staffordshire used the slogan "Public against paedos". He pretended to be interested in his target on an adult dating site and they arranged to meet in a branch of Costa coffee. Peter thought he was meeting an 18-year-old, and insists he is not a paedophile or child groomer. Only when he was waiting in the cafe did a text come through saying "she" was 15 and that he immediately got up and left.

It was then that Daemon Hunter accosted him in the street, accused him of trying to meet a 15-year-old for sex, and chased him through town filming him. Peter told the Guardian: "He said: 'I think we need to talk because you're a **** paedophile.' I said: 'What do you mean mate? She's 18, that's what I was told. I've just had a text message up there saying she's 15 and that's why I've walked away.' Next thing I know he got his phone up filming me, calling me a paedophile, asking her age. I was shocked. He started shouting I was a paedophile in the middle of town. I thought 'I am going to get a kicking here' so I just legged it."

Within hours, the vigilante uploaded footage of the sting on to the internet along with Peter's mobile number. That night his phone was jammed with abusive texts and voicemails, which he said included death threats.

So he fled north in his car, only returning when he thought the worst was over. Later, he said his house was hit with bricks and that his wife tried to kill herself with an overdose of pills. He was so scared he was reduced to hiding in a cupboard when the doorbell rang.

Staffordshire police reviewed the evidence and concluded there was no case for any prosecution, but the damage was done. More than 5,000 people viewed the film and Peter has now moved to the other side of the country, cut off from family, friends and work."

Sorry what?

You are seriously saying he deserved to be harassed, abused, labelled a paedophile and sent death threats.