A British man at the centre of the world’s largest ever catfishing investigations will be sentenced today after he admitted manslaughter of a 12-year-old girl who killed herself when he blackmailed her.
Alexander McCartney, 26, of County Armagh, Northern Ireland, used Snapchat and other sites to trick at least 70 children around the world into sending him intimate photographs of themselves.
He previously admitted 185 charges including manslaughter of Cimarron Thomas, 12, from West Virginia, US, who shot herself dead with her father’s handgun after she was blackmailed online.
Follow ‘s live coverage of McCartney’s sentencing at Belfast Crown Court from 2pm