I mentioned earlier that I would be surprised about the grooming online and said we weren’t using the internet then like we were now - and based on your comments I have remembered that I was also using chat rooms all the time from 2003 and even went to meet complete strangers then! So I feel silly for saying that now. Sorry.
However I seem to remember his dad saying there was no evidence of him really even using the internet, he had no email address and as we know, he wasn’t using a mobile at the time.
Of course none of us know. But I wanted to correct myself because my comment was silly. Of course we were using chat rooms by 2007.