Overview
- Manchester Crown Court sentenced the 37-year-old on 24 February 2026 after he pleaded guilty to 22 non-contact child sexual offences.
- He targeted six girls between November 2024 and March 2025, contacting them via TikTok, WhatsApp and Snapchat across multiple fake accounts.
- Investigators said he sent explicit images found online, falsely claimed they depicted the child, and threatened to share them to extort indecent images.
- Digital forensics recovered nearly 150 indecent images from his phone despite a recent factory reset, linking reports across forces.
- Greater Manchester Police urged reporting of concerns and cited regional data showing Snapchat featured in 61% of comparable cases between April 2023 and May 2025.