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Jonathan McCambridge

DARK SECRETS: Online catfishing abuser believed to have targeted 3 500 victims across world | Vintage Vibes

Prolific online abuser Alexander McCartney was sentenced at Belfast Crown Court (Liam McBurney/PA) - (PA Archive)

A Northern Ireland man at the centre of a global web of catfishing, blackmail and sexual abuse is believed by police to have targeted about 3,500 children.

From the bedroom of his childhood home near Newry, Alexander McCartney created a catfishing network which lured in victims across 30 countries.

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