A Clever Journalist

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"Four paedophiles who were caught after a local newspaper reporter answered an obscene graffiti advert on a train toilet door have been handed lengthy jail terms.

Ruth Lumley, 26, noticed graffiti urging girls between eight and 13 to text a mobile phone number while she was travelling home from work.

Posing as an 11-year-old girl, Miss Lumley who worked on the Chichester Observer in West Sussex at the time, replied to the advert and was sent a series of increasingly sexually explicit messages from a pay-as-you-go mobile phone.

She alerted police and prompted a complex 10-month nationwide investigation that uncovered "horrific" child abuse on eight victims and led detectives to Trevor Haddock, 55, Ian Jones, 43, John Farmer, 68, and Derek Moody, 43.

The four men pleaded guilty to a range of sex offences at Hove Crown Court earlier this month and have now been given jail terms ranging from eight years to life."