Michael Butler

Michael Butler (born 1983 or 1984) is a convicted sex offender.

In July 2014, he was handed a 15-month prison sentence for sexual activity with a girl under 13 and attempting to arrange sexual contact with a child. In addition, Butler was made subject to a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order banning him from using the internet unchecked and having contact with children under the age of 16.

Butler breached the above-mentioned Sexual Harm Prevention Order by becoming friends with a stallholder and associating with the stallholder's three young children. Butler also used his mobile phone to view child pornography and deleted the internet history, and he did not comply with a notifcation requirement over changing his name.

In 2017, he was snared in a sting by Dark Justice after grooming and arranging to meet what he thought was a 13-year-old girl called Amy. As a result of Butler's actions, as well as his actions mentioned in the paragraph above, Butler was jailed for 3-and-a-half years and was ordered to sign the sex offenders' register for life. Butler was sentenced by Judge Peter Armstrong, and a person called Harry Hadfield prosecuted during the trial.