Speaking to the Evening News, Bryn Frere-Smith explains how a career spent confronting child exploitation ultimately led him to create a business with a mission beyond serving artisan coffee.

Bryn Frere-Smith, right, at his Blue Bear Coffee shop in Tombland, with barista Jack Stringer (Image: Denise Bradley)

Mr Frere-Smith opened Blue Bear Coffee in Tombland three years ago, offering caffeine fiends a brew of ground beans from as far a field as Ethiopia, Columbia and Zambia.

But the business' name derives from a place even more unexpected - the Dominican Republic.

For a year, Mr Frere-Smith worked undercover with the Dominican Republic police on behalf of a non-governmental organisation based in the US called the International Justice Mission.

He helped infiltrate establishments where it was believed that children were being sold for sex.

Mr Frere-Smith worked in the Dominican Republic for one year (Image: Supplied by Bryn Frere-Smith)

He said: "If I could go to places where I could find children being sold, then I could get evidence where local Dominican officers were not always able to get access."

In 2017, Mr Frere-Smith witnessed a teenage girl and her........

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