Family of sextortion speak to ITV news as cases soar by 54%
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Family of sextortion speak to ITV news as cases soar by 54%
In their first interview, the parents of a sixteen-year-old boy who took his own life just hours after he was blackmailed by a scammer have told ITV News their "whole world has been shattered".
Murray Dowey, 16, from Dunblane was contacted on social media by someone claiming to be a young girl but was actually a scammer, who tricked him into sending an intimate image and then blackmailed him with it.
Sextortion, is when intimate images and/or videos are recorded and used for financial exploitation and coercion.
It is mostly committed by organised criminal gangs overseas.
Report by Covellm.
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In their first interview, the parents of a sixteen-year-old boy who took his own life just hours after he was blackmailed by a scammer have told ITV News their "whole world has been shattered". Murray Dowey, 16, from Dunblane was contacted on social media by someone claiming to be a young girl but was actually a scammer, who tricked him into sending an intimate image and then blackmailed him with it. Sextortion, is when intimate images and/or videos are recorded and used for financial exploitation and coercion. It is mostly committed by organised criminal gangs overseas. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer says he is āreally concernedā over the stabbing attacks in Hainault and Sheffield as a 14-year-old boy killed who was on Tuesday is named as Daniel Anjorin.
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A 17-year-old boy has been arrested and remains in custody on suspicion of attempted murder after three people were injured at a school in Sheffield. Assistant Chief Constable, Dan Thorpe, urged the public to ārefrain from posting images, footage or speculation on social media as it will be harmful to the investigationā.
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The parents of Grace OāMalley-Kumar have blamed āfailingsā in the system for a series of stabbing attacks, including a sword attack in Hainault on Tuesday and a school stabbing in Sheffield on Wednesday. Graceās father, Dr Sanjoy Kumar, said āpositive change is so long overdueā after a 14-year-old boy was killed in Hainault and three teenage boys were admitted to hospital in Sheffield following the attacks.
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