Paedophile hunter Dylan James Rice pledged to ’keep destroying nonces’ lives and reputations’ even after he was warned by police about his vigilante activities.

He posted on his Freedom of Safety Facebook page on December 12 on the day he was visited by detectives.

Rice said officers told him to delete his page because he would get himself in trouble for soliciting violence towards those people named by his group.

He posted: ’I was told it was in my family’s best interest for me to take the page down. Which I take as a threat. I will keep destroying nonces’ lives and reputations - just not with this page. I have too many people depending on me.’

A week earlier, on December 5, he changed the group from private to public.

He posted then: ’I am doing two stings next week on Facebook live with a team.

’It’s taken me a bit longer than I thought it would to set the group up properly but I have just wanted to make sure I had everything correctly in place.’

He explained that decoy accounts had been set up which had attracted a ’lot of messages’ from ’active paedophiles’.

’We are going through all of the messages and making sure we have the appropriate evidence for a proper conviction,’ he said.

’All the people that I expose on the page have literally been caught red-handed.’

Rice said he had received advice from a couple of vigilante groups in the UK and one was coming over to ’help me out on a few stings in the new year’.

In a reflection of his self-appointed role as judge, jury and executioner, he pleaded with the families of those he had exposed online to stop messaging him with reasons why their ’loved one is not a nonce’.

’They wouldn’t be on this page if they weren’t one,’ he said. On November 24 he posted that he had received ’a lot of abuse off family members of the people I exposed’.

He insisted: ’I never started this page to hurt anybody. The people exposed are lucky I didn’t take the information to the police as they would be spending Christmas on C wing.’