A former professional wrestler who arranged to meet a girl he believed was 14 year old told a police officer arresting him ‘I made a bad mistake, I am bang to rights’.
Steven Cavanagh, 39, believed he was chatting to a teenage girl but was instead talking to an undercover police officer posing as a decoy at his then home in Glasgow‘s Cardonald in July 2023, a court heard.
It was heard the pair first interacted on the social media application Chat Avenue.
The decoy told Cavanagh – who went by the ring names Alex Cavanagh and Cav – that she was 14 years old and she asked if it was ‘cool’ to which he replied ‘Yeah’.
Cavanagh, an ex-Insane Championship Wrestling and Scottish Wrestling Alliance fighter, went on to ask the decoy if she had ‘done things with lads’ and progressed the conversation sexually.
Wrestler Steven Cavanagh, an ex-Insane Championship Wrestling, went on to ask the decoy if she had ‘done things with lads’ and progressed the conversation sexually
Sentence was deferred pending background reports by Sheriff Daniel Kelly who put Cavanagh, now of Govan, on the sex offenders register and granted him bail meantime
Cavanagh, Scottish Wrestling Alliance fighter, went on to ask the decoy if she had ‘done things with lads’ and progressed the conversation sexually
He asked the decoy if she would come for a ‘ride in my car’ but he was rebuffed.
The conversation moved onto email with Cavanagh calling himself ‘hornysteveUK’.
Prosecutor Ross Canning told Glasgow Sheriff Court: ‘Cavanagh brought it to sexual matters and asked what things she liked to do with boys.’
It was heard Cavanagh attempted to meet with the decoy on July 12 2023 but was told that she was not able to make it.
A futher meeting was arranged for July 26 where Cavanagh was instead stopped by police at Partick train station and was arrested.
He said: ‘I made a bad mistake, I am bang to rights, I did it, like I said it’s black and white.’
Cavanagh pled guilty today/yesterday to attempting to communicate indecently and arranging to meet with a child.
Sentence was deferred pending background reports by Sheriff Daniel Kelly who put Cavanagh, now of Govan, on the sex offenders register and granted him bail meantime.