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Drag queen called 'Miss Gin' snared by paedophile hunters who fooled him into thinking he was talking to a teenage boy is jailed for 34 months Andrew Way, known by stage name Miss Gin, thought he was chatting to a boy Way, 61, pretended he was 27 and contacted teen not realising he was set up It was a paedophile hunting group who were behind the 14-year-old boy profile

By Arthur Parashar

Updated: 22:43 BST, 25 August 2023

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A drag queen snared by paedophile hunters who fooled him into thinking he was talking to a teenage boy has been jailed for 34 months.

Andrew Way, whose stage name was Miss Gin, believed he was sending explicit messages to a 14-year-old boy.

The 61-year-old Pride organiser pretended he was 27 and began contacting the 'teenager', not realising a paedophile hunting group had set up the profile and trapped him.

Way - who appeared on Judge Rinder's ITV show in 2019 - was reported to police after their decoy trapped the predator.

The drag artist veteran of more than 40 years sent 'highly sexualised' messages over a chat website, Snapchat and WhatsApp to the decoy.