November 21, 2023 11.31 am This story is over 13 months old

RAF veteran receives suspended sentence in underage sex sting

Online decoy leads to suspended sentence for Andrew Hughes from Lincoln

A former RAF veteran who arranged to meet what he thought was a 14-year-old girl at Doddington Hall for sex was on Tuesday given a suspended jail sentence.

Andrew Hughes, 57, of Larne Road, Lincoln, was in fact confronted by an online protection group who had been using a decoy profile to communicate with him.

Read the full court report on MyLocal Lincolnshire, the new home of The Lincolnite