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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alexander McCartney was jailed for a minimum of 20 years after admitting 185 charges involving 70 children, though a court has previously heard that the real number of victims is much higher.

In some instances, he demanded his victims involve younger siblings. McCartney told one girl he would get people to go to her house to rape her if she did not comply with his demands. Victims have ...

Alexander McCartney, a man detectives describe as a ‘disgusting child predator’, admitted 185 charges involving 70 child victims, but it is believed that there are “many, many more victims ...

Alexander McCartney, 26, showed no emotion as he was told at Belfast Crown Court that he must serve at least 20 years before being considered for release. The computer science student caused ...

Alexander McCartney, 26, was handed a life sentence ... We will bring you live updates from his sentencing hearing with our reporter Paul Thompson primed and ready at Belfast Crown Court.

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