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 ...

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 ...

Although it couldn’t have hurt any of the former Beatles to take a look back on their older material, Paul McCartney had really had his fill by the time he finished this grand project. Because, in ...

Alexander McCartney, 26, from County Armagh, Northern Ireland, admitted to 185 charges involving at least 70 children ahead of his sentencing at Belfast Crown Court today (25 October). For most of ...

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 ...

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 ...