BREAKING: Online predator whose ‘catfish’ abuse drove father & daughter to take personal lives jailed

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An on-line predator whose abuse led an American lady and her father to take their very own lives has been jailed for at the least 20 years after the UK’s largest ‘catfishing’ case.

Alexander McCartney, 26, beforehand admitted 185 fees, together with the manslaughter of a woman who took her personal life.

Belfast Crown Court heard his victims had been aged between 10 and 16 and positioned within the UK, USA, continental Europe, Australia and New Zealand as Sky’s David Blevins stories.

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