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The man, in his 40s, had been arrested by Avon and Somerset Police on Friday evening after being accosted by so-called "child protection service" groups.

He was released from custody the next day but was seen falling onto the M4 at around 6:40pm before being hit by vehicles on the road.

Police are not treating his death as suspicious and have referred the case to a coroner.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

caught by pedo hunters

arrested

commits suicide

Am I reading this article correctly?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Or the pedo hunters thought that the police had not done enough, and taken care of him themselves.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I think the police will have arrested him in the first place because information was provided to them by the Hunters, so really they didn't need to confront him, it was the arrest that caused him to commit suicide.

The police will have released him simply because they won't have considered him an escape risk and probably not an active threat to the community just creepy.

Anyone who is involved in this kind of thing knows that this sort of thing takes time so I doubt they would have taken matters into their own hands so quickly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Apparently.