Matthew Falder: One of Britain's most prolific paedophiles jailed for 32 years after blackmailing children on dark web
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Version 0 of 8. One of Britain’s most prolific paedophiles has been jailed after blackmailing dozens of young victims into performing depraved sexual acts online. Matthew Falder, a 29-year-old Cambridge graduate, was sentenced for 32 years in prison after admitting 137 offences against 46 victims. Three of them attempted to kill themselves after being coerced into sending him explicit images, with Falder being arrested following a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation in June. Birmingham Crown Court heard that both male and female victims were convinced to send “increasingly severe self-generated indecent images of themselves, the focus of these images being to humiliate and degrade”. Prosecutor Ruona Iguyovwe said many images were then distributed on so-called “hurtcore” websites showing material depicting sexual and physical abuse. “100 things we want to see at least once”, Falder wrote on one forum, suggesting “a young girl being used as a dartboard”, a video depicting a child's bones being “slowly and deliberately broken” and the abuse of “a paralysed child”. Falder initially posed as a female artist who wanted to turn the images, including showing a vulnerable girl eating dog food, into life drawings. More follows |