Rush icon planned to buy 12 instruments for his own enjoyment – but when his collection reached 250 he decided to justify the ...

Alexander McCartney from Northern Ireland pretended to be a teenage girl to befriend, then abuse and blackmail children around the world, often sharing images with other paedophiles. Some of the ...

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 ...

Detective Chief Superintendent Eamonn Corrigan, Police Service of Northern Ireland and Catherine Kierans, NI Public Prosecution Service, speak to the media outside Belfast Crown Court after prolific ...

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 ...

The family of a 12-year-old American girl who took her own life while being blackmailed by Alexander McCartney have told of their devastation over her death. In May 2018, Cimarron Thomas from West ...

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 ...