Alexander McCartney pleaded guilty to 185 charges involving 70 children, including the manslaughter charge. Police have identified victims in 30 countries, including Australia, New Zealand and the ...

Alexander McCartney, from Lisummon Road outside Newry, pretended to be a teenage girl to target children across the world, a practice known as catfishing. He pleaded guilty to a total of 185 ...

Alex McCartney, 26, had pleaded guilty earlier this year to a charge of manslaughter in a Northern Ireland court after a young American girl who was among the thousands of alleged victims he ...

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 ...

In her last online conversation with Alexander McCartney, he threatened to share inappropriate images - images he had tricked the 12-year-old into sending him - if she did not send pictures of her ...

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.

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