An Indian PhD student who tricked more than 70 girls into sharing explicit images by posing online as a teenage boy has been jailed for 30 years.
Bilal Kazi, 27, who had overstayed his UK student visa, preyed on girls as young as ten by pretending to be a blond-haired boy called ‘Reece’ on Snapchat and other apps popular with children.
The ‘sexual predator’ would convince them into believing they were in a relationship, then lure them into sharing increasingly sexually explicit images of themselves.
If they refused, he would blackmail them by threatening to share details with their friends and family.
One victim aged 13
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