Man asked '14-year-old girl' for pictures of her feet

A MAN exchanged sexual messages with what he believed to be a 14-year-old girl and told her about his fetishes for nylon tights, stockings and sexual acts involving feet, a court heard.

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On December 8 last year a paedophile hunter group which had set up what's known as a 'decoy' was contacted by Ryan Cottle, who at the time was 25.

The decoy was pretending to be a 14-year-old girl and after an exchange of messages on a social media platform the conversation soon moved over to WhatsApp.

According to prosecution barrister Dean Pulling, Cottle, now 26, began to steer the conversation towards a sexual nature and told the 'girl' what aroused him sexually and spoke about his fetishes.

He asked her if she wore tights and if he could see pictures of her feet and “stockinged toes”.