PSNIAlexander McCartney has been jailed for life for his litany of crimesIt was a phone call from a 13-year-old girl in Scotland in 2019 that eventually led to the capture of a social media predator described as one of the world’s most prolific child sex abusers.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 children were as young as four. Some had never told anyone what they had been through – until police knocked on their door.McCartney gradually admitted 185 charges including manslaughter after a 12-year-old girl he was abusing took her own life. He has been jailed for a minimum of 20 years.What did police do?Following contact from police in Scotland, an urgent investigation by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) swung into operation in March 2019.Detectives identified the home address of Alexander McCartney, arrested and…
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