Warning: This story discusses suicide and sexual abuse
A Northern Irish man at the centre of a global web of catfishing, blackmail and sexual abuse has pleaded guilty to manslaughter after one of his victims committed suicide.
Predator Alexander McCartney admitted to over 180 charges in a Belfast court, including admitting to manslaughter after a 12-year-old girl took her own life in 2018 following an online blackmail campaign, the BBC reports.
Details of 25-year-old McCartney’s guilty pleas were not previously reported due to court restrictions that were lifted this week.
The charges involve more than 60 child victims between 2013 and 2019 and include a girl from Hawke’s Bay.