August 2020 Paedophile told paedo hunters he was into children from ‘birth and upwards’ A convicted sex offender claimed to be a paedophile hunter when confronted by a real paedophine hunting team who he unwittingly told he liked children. John Wray, 36, boasted about belonging to paedophile chatrooms where sharing child abuse videos is a condition of membership. The fitness coach said he was ‘into birth and upwards when it came to images and videos’ when chatting online. Using the alias James Craig, he offered to take two 14-year-old girls shopping for ‘underwear and bikinis’ and said he wanted their friends, as young as nine, to dance topless for him in a hot tub. But what he didn’t know was that the people he was chatting to in July were actually members of a paedophile hunter group called The Soloceptors/Soul Survivors. When the team confronted him on camera at his home in Byker, Newcastle, he claimed he was also a paedophile hunter and had helped convict 500 sexual predators. Claiming his fake name was merely a ‘cover’, he said: ‘I’m trying to trap them. The way we do things, how we do it is we try to make sure they slip up and tell us things, it’s how we do it. ‘I know it’s not how you do it, our way of doing things would be classed in some cases as entrapment. We get them to admit things that they’re up to, that’s what we’re about.’ Wray claimed he had been running his group, called Scarlettos, for 13 years. But the group didn’t buy his story and called in the police, leading to him being locked up for five years and four months. Upon examining the pervert’s phone, police discovered a 50 second clip of child sexual abuse and found he was a member of child exploitation groups. Wray already had convictions for engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child and making indecent photos of children Appearing at Newcastle Crown Court he pleaded guilty to three breaches of a sexual harm prevention order, attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child and making an indecent photograph of a child Miss Recorder Allison Hunter QC said: ‘You demonstrate a complete disregard for court orders and lack of sexual boundaries where the rights and welfare of children are concerned in order to indulge in your own deviant interests and activities.’   His instagram is: mumanddaughersfucker