iStockA former wrestler arranged to meet a girl he believed was 14 after speaking in a sexual manner with her online.
Steven Cavanagh, 39, was instead talking to an undercover police officer posing as a decoy at his then home in Glasgow’s Cardonald in July 2023.
Glasgow Sheriff Court heard how the pair first interacted on social media application Chat Avenue.
The decoy told Cavanagh – who went by the ring names Alex Cavanagh and Cav – that she was 14 and she asked if it was “cool.”
The ex-Insane Championship Wrestling and Scottish Wrestling Alliance fighter Cavanagh replied: “Yeah.”
Prosecutor Ross Canning said: “Cavanagh brought it to sexual matters and asked what things she liked to do with boys.”
Cavanagh attempted to meet with the decoy on July 12 2023 but was told that she was not able to make it.
A further meeting was arranged for July 26 where Cavanagh was instead stopped by police at Partick train station and was arrested.
He said: “I made a bad mistake, I am bang to rights, I did it, like I said it’s black and white.”
Cavanagh pled guilty on Friday to attempting to communicate indecently and arranging to meet with a child.
Sentence was deferred pending background reports by Sheriff Daniel Kelly who put Cavanagh, now of Govan, on the sex offenders register and granted him bail meantime.
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