The 36-year-old used Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat to repeatedly demand his victims send him naked images of themselves. If they refused he blackmailed them by threatening to share their images with friends and family. Utting even shared the explicit images with the boys' school friends on Snapchat and posted them on social media, leaving his victims "horrified" and "ashamed", a court heard. Prosecutor Matthew Lawson today told Winchester Crown Court: "He would groom the boys and turn it sexual and request images. "He would incite them by sending explicit photos downloaded from the internet under the pretence that this was him."

Source: Daily Mirror June 05, 2020 13:44 UTC