Overview
- The unnamed 16-year-old, sentenced Monday at Southampton Youth Court, received an 18-month Youth Rehabilitation Order with a prohibited activity requirement.
- The order bans Discord, Telegram, and Tor-style browsers, limits social media to adult‑supervised or school use, and sets a 10 p.m. device cutoff.
- His phone and desktop were forfeited and ordered destroyed as part of the sentence.
- The offences, which began when he was 14, ran for 16 months and targeted mainly teenage girls whom he pressured to carve his username and send images; he admitted encouraging self-harm and was later convicted of making indecent images of children.
- Investigators built the case from messages on his phone and computer, seized an Xbox after a bail breach, and later said at least a dozen victims were affected, some as young as 13 and some outside the UK, with cropped images hindering identification.