Crime Paedo grandad slashes his own throat outside UK police station as sting group stream it

A sex offender who knifed himself in the neck after being exposed by an online group has pledged to never own a computer again. Stephen McLoughlin, 59, sent sexually explicit messages to two online accounts he thought belonged to two schoolgirls, "Maddie and Summer", who were aged 13 and 12 respectively. However, the truth was that McLoughlin, of Pitsmead Road in Kirkby, had been communicating for several months with a group calling themselves TFN, an acronym for Travelled From Nottingham. The case attracted remarkable online attention when footage of McLoughlin was streamed online by the group and captured the grandfather-of-two producing a knife and stabbing himself in the neck outside a Merseyside Police station on August 26, 2022. McLoughlin, who insisted he was messaging the account simply as "a joke", was found guilty of a string of child sexual offences after a trial at Bolton Crown Court in February this year.