TWELVE-year-old Cimarron Thomas was just like any other curious pre-teenager exploring the world around her, spending hours in her room listening to Katy Perry and watching Netflix.
So when she killed herself with her father’s handgun at her home in West Virginia in May 2018, her devastated family were blindsided, unaware that she had become caught in a cruel web of deception spun by the UK’s most prolific catfish abuser.
Sick Alexander McCartney, of Newry, Northern Ireland, was today jailed for manslaughter and offences relating to blackmailing over 70 victims in the UK, Europe, America and New Zealand.
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