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| Cannibalism fetish nurse Dale Bolinger guilty of trying to meet girl | |
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| A nurse who fantasised about killing and eating a teenage girl has been convicted of sexual grooming. | |
| Dale Bolinger, 58, bought an axe the day before he planned to meet the girl, whom he groomed online. | |
| Jurors heard he chatted with someone who said they were a Mexican girl called Eva on an online fetish network. | Jurors heard he chatted with someone who said they were a Mexican girl called Eva on an online fetish network. |
| Bolinger was found guilty of attempting to meet a girl under the age of 16 following sexual grooming at Canterbury Crown Court. | |
| In conversations on a website called the Dark Fetish Network (DFN), Bolinger described sex acts he wanted to perform on her and how he would murder her and prepare her "for the table". | |
| They arranged that Eva would travel from Germany and he went to Ashford International station to meet her, but she never arrived. | |
| Uncovered by FBI | |
| Bolinger, who had worked as a nurse at the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital in Margate and was married for 34 years, had told police he had been interested in the idea of cannibalism since childhood but claimed it was only as a fantasy. | |
| When questioned about the images, he told detectives: "I do not find children sexually attractive but I do find them interesting as a food source." | |
| In court, he claimed his graphic online chats were an attempt to shock people and he had never intended to kill anyone. | |
| When under arrest, he had told detectives he thought he had probably been speaking with a man in his 30s "surrounded by pizza boxes". | |
| Prosecutor Martin Yale told the trial internet chats involving Bolinger on the DFN site about beheading and eating women and girls were discovered by the FBI in New York. | |
| Investigators traced the email address meatmarketman@rocketmail.com to Kent and Bolinger was arrested when the information was passed to the Kent Police. | |
| Bolinger, formerly of Canterbury, used a picture of supermodel Naomi Campbell on his profile and in chats with other users claimed to have eaten a 39-year-old black woman and a five-year-old child, Mr Yale told jurors. | |
| His profile, under the name Chris C, listed his interests as "cannibalism, mainly the hunting and preparation of young but sometimes not so young women". | |
| Bolinger will be sentenced on 19 September, |