Judges cut sentence of man caught in People sting

A man trapped in a newspaper sting has had his prison sentence cut by almost half. Graham Barnett thought he was talking to a 13-year-old girl on an internet chatroom in January last year, but it turned out to be a People journalist. He later pleaded guilty to a sexual grooming offence and was sentenced in March to a 30-month jail term. Appeal court judges reduced it to 18 months, partly because of his "very considerable humiliation as a result of exposure in the national press." (Via Croydon Guardian)