He would then encourage them to share indecent images. Once he got the picture, he would reveal the “ catfish” and blackmail the victim into indulging in sex acts. Corrigan said McCartney “threatened ...

The term gained popular use as a verb for deception from the 2010 documentary titled Catfish directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman that talked about these kinds of fraudulent relationships. He is ...

It was a phone call from a 13-year-old girl in Scotland in 2019 that eventually led to the capture of a social media predator described as one of the world's most prolific child sex abusers.

Alexander McCartney, 26, posed online as a teenage girl to befriend young females across the world on the social media app Snapchat, forcing them to send him explicit pictures, then threatening to ...

A catfish who targeted young girls online has been sentenced to at least 20 years in prison after being convicted of the manslaughter of a victim who took her own life. Alexander McCartney pleaded ...

unaware that she had become caught in a cruel web of deception spun by the UK’s most prolific catfish abuser. Sick Alexander McCartney from Northern Ireland was jailed for manslaughter and ...

An online predator who led an American girl and her father to take their own lives has been jailed for at least 20 years after the UK's largest "catfishing" case. Warning: This article contains ...

The UK’s most prolific “catfish” ran a “paedophile enterprise” targeting 3,500 children in 30 countries, a court has heard. Alexander McCartney was jailed for life and ordered to serve a ...

Alexander McCartney, who has been labelled “Britain’s worst catfish”, was sentenced in Belfast Crown Court overnight to a minimum of 20 years in prison for 185 crimes, including admitting to ...

A serial catfish abuser from Northern Ireland who caused one of his victims in the US to take her own life has been jailed for life with a minimum of 20 years. Online predator Alexander McCartney ...

A predator who pretended to be a young girl so he could catfish his victims has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 29 years behind bars. Alexander McCartney, 26, from County Armagh ...

Some readers may find the details of this report distressing. An online predator who drove one of his catfish victims in the US to take her own life has been jailed for at least 20 years.