Sex offender ‘groomed’ undercover police officer

A child sex offender exchanged more than 500 messages online with a police officer who was pretending to be a 13-year-old girl.

After the explicit messages, 57-year-old Graeme Murray Purvis arranged to meet the girl at a frozen yoghurt shop in Riccarton.

He went to the second floor, as arranged, sat at a table and introduced himself to the officer in plain clothes. He was then arrested.

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