‘catfish’ killer Alexander McCartney would never have been exposed if it wasn’t for the bravery of a 12-year-old girl, ...

A woman who was abused as a teenager by one of the world’s most prolific catfish abusers has described her anger that he used her photograph to lure other victims. Alexander McCartney, from Newry in ...

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) plans on stocking 157 locations in Indiana with around 51,000 channel catfish to expand fishing opportunities. The ...

Northern Ireland’s Justice Minister Naomi Long has said any lessons from the Alexander McCartney case will be learned. The online predator, who drove one of his victims in the US to take her own ...

A childhood friend of the 12-year-old American girl who took her own life after being blackmailed by “depraved” paedophile Alexander McCartney has said he should be extradited to the US to face the ...

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 ...

UK's worst catfish jailed after driving father and daughter to take own lives McCartney admitted 185 charges after targeting children worldwide for years, working across time zones from the ...

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 ...