AN UNDERCOVER police officer posed as an 11-year-old girl on a chat room app to snare a paedophile, a court has heard.

Bosses at Chat Avenue have defended the site, claiming 'there will always be bad apples' Ian Johnson Multimedia Journalist. 16:00, 26 Feb 2019.

The nephew of paedophile Great Ormond Street Hospital porter Paul Farrell has been jailed for four-and-a-half years for attempting to groom a child online for sex.