The horrific online crimes of Co Armagh ‘catfish’ killer Alexander McCartney would never have been exposed if it wasn’t for ...

McCartney, from Newry, who drove one of his victims in the US to take her own life, was jailed for at least 20 years at a ...

A new BBC Series is set to hear from victims of NI catfish abuser Alexander McCartney. In October 2024, the 26-year-old from ...

A woman who was abused as a teenager by one of the world's most prolific catfish abusers has described her anger that he used ...

All that changed in May 2021, when a PSNI team visited her mother Stephanie to tell her Cimarron had been driven to her death ...

From the bedroom of his childhood home near Newry, Alexander McCartney created a catfishing network which lured in victims across 30 countries. The scale of the offending by McCartney stunned even ...

Alexander McCartney used his technical knowledge to carry out his perverted crimes. The Nothern Irish computer science student, 26, has today been sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in jail at ...

Alexander McCartney has been sentenced to life in prison and must serve a minimum of 20 years. Police have released this new custody photo of Alexander McCartney. Before imposing his sentence, the ...

Alexander McCartney, a man from Newry in Northern Ireland who detectives describe as a "disgusting child predator," was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday, October 25 at Belfast Crown Court.

Justice Minister Naomi Long has called on anyone who has been abused by Alexander McCartney to come forward. On Friday, ...

Evil online predator Alexander McCartney was only 14 when he started torturing thousands of young people across the world.

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 ...