Lindsell, 64, pretended to be a teenager and tried to set up a meeting with the girl, who was 13 at the time, after meeting her in a chatroom.

She may have gone off to meet a chatroom pal known as Dawn.

A poster called Putin said: "Gregory Tomkins was a funny man, he did a lot of funny stuff in the chatroom but also got upset a lot."

Undoing all the good work of Kick-Ass and Nowhere Boy is Aaron Johnson playing William, a lad who tempts a group of teens into a chatroom where he acts as counsellor before homing in on their weaknesses.

Marsbar (Chatroom, October 17), Winker Watson is missing from the Dewhurst, or don't you consider him as a top two-year-old?

After Gibbons was arrested, he was found to have boasted about what he was going to do in the chatroom. The attack, in December last year, followed the two men meeting in an internet chatroom called Islam 10.

Every chatroom should have a moderator so that people can report suspicious users and they can be banned.

He was caught after a tip-off from another chatroom user who became suspicious of McGuigan's messages to the girl.

John Evans, prosecuting, said the former teacher made contact with a 14-year-old boy through a chatroom and twice indecently assaulted him after they first met on the car park of a Black Country public house.

'But I have never been in a chatroom and don't know anyone who has.

Last night his devastated parents said they believed their bright son had been brainwashed by sick suicide chatrooms, and called for the people who run them to be prosecuted.

Lindsell, 64, pretended to be a teenager and tried to set up a meeting with the girl, then 13, after "meeting" her in a chatroom.

The announcement follows the admission in court by a Briton that he travelled to the US to have sex with a schoolgirl he met in an internet chatroom.

He had locked on to her just seven minutes after she entered a chatroom and made a series of disgusting suggestions before eventually persuading her to meet him.

A new computer chatroom has been launched for couples who live in rural areas.