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Questions you might have about the UK’s biggest catfish killer, answered: What is catfishing, who is Alex McCartney, and how he was outed
BELFAST Oct 26 — Irishman Alexander McCartney was handed a life sentence yesterday for 185 charges of online child sexual abuse and blackmail related to “catfishing” attacks, one of which led to the ...
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Catfish Alexander McCartney sentenced to life in prison for manslaughter after blackmailing thousands of girls
Alexander McCartney pleaded guilty to 185 charges involving 70 children, including the manslaughter charge. Police have identified victims in 30 countries, including Australia, New Zealand and the ...
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Alexander McCartney sentenced in U.K. court for "catfishing" thousands, including U.S. girl who died by suicide
Alex McCartney, 26, had pleaded guilty earlier this year to a charge of manslaughter in a Northern Ireland court after a young American girl who was among the thousands of alleged victims he ...
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Killer catfish used Snapchat to abuse 3,500 children in 30 countries
Alexander McCartney was jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum of 20 years after posing as a teenage girl to befriend young girls on Snapchat before blackmailing them. Police said the 26 ...
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Catfishing predator Alexander McCartney: Kiwi dad tells how his daughters were targeted
Alexander McCartney, from Northern Ireland, has been sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison for targeting children across the world. A New Zealand father has told how he will never forgive ...
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Predator in ‘UK’s largest catfishing case’ drove 12-year-old girl to suicide
Online predator Alexander McCartney, 26, had used the Snapchat social media platform to befriend teenage girls across the world, and convince them to send an explicit image. Once he had secured a ...
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Abuser in 'largest UK catfish case' jailed for life after 12-year-old girl commits suicide
Alexander McCartney, 26, from County Armagh, Northern Ireland, admitted to 185 charges involving at least 70 children ahead of his sentencing at Belfast Crown Court today (25 October). For most of ...
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Family of girl, 12, driven to death by Alexander McCartney tell of devastation
The family of a 12-year-old American girl who took her own life while being blackmailed by Alexander McCartney have told of their devastation over her death. In May 2018, Cimarron Thomas from West ...
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Prolific catfish abuser Alexander McCartney who drove girl to suicide jailed for at least 20 years
Alexander McCartney, 26, who admitted 185 charges involving 70 children, was given a life sentence with a minimum term by Mr Justice O’Hara at Belfast Crown Court on Friday. McCartney ...
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How online abuser destroyed US girl's life from his Armagh bedroom
In her last online conversation with Alexander McCartney, he threatened to share inappropriate images - images he had tricked the 12-year-old into sending him - if she did not send pictures of her ...
The Irish Times22d
The horrific online crimes of Alexander McCartney, and the questions they raise for the PSNI
Alexander McCartney (26), was sentenced at Belfast Crown Court to life with a minimum of 20 years for 185 offences linked to the online sexual abuse of 70 children living as far away as New ...
The Irish Times22d
‘Sadism and depravity’: NI catfisher whose Snapchat threats led to death of girl (12) jailed for life
As he sentenced Alexander McCartney (26) , from Lissummon Road in Newry, for a total of 185 charges including manslaughter, Mr Justice O’Hara said “he used social media on an industrial scale ...