警報 問題／発行するd to ALL UK children over online 'sextortion 疫病／流行性の': Police 警告する foreign ギャング（団）s are ゆすり，恐喝ing hundreds of kids over intimate pics - as mother of 犠牲者, 16, who took his own life 問題／発行するs 嘆願 to other desperate youngsters

By Rebecca Camber 罪，犯罪 And 安全 Editor and Katherine Lawton

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Teachers were given an 前例のない 警報 yesterday about pupils 存在 的d in 'sextortion' scams.

The 国家の 罪，犯罪 機関 警告するd all 570,000 最初の／主要な and 第２位 teachers across Britain that children as young as five are at 危険.

It is the first time the NCA has 問題／発行するd a 国家の 警報 to schools and 専門家s say it is 緊急に needed to 茎・取り除く a 'sextortion 疫病／流行性の'.

The number of children 的d by 犯罪の ギャング（団）s has risen by 266 per cent in just two years. The NCA said 243 fell 犠牲者 in 2020 but this ロケット／急騰するd to 890 in 2022.?

Ruthless 犯罪の ギャング（団）s from West Africa and South East?Asia are 誘惑するing in children online, tricking them into believing they are in a 本物の 関係 or friendship with someone their own age before 需要・要求するing they 株 intimate photographs or film themselves on a webcam.

Blackmailers then 脅す to 解放（する） nude or 半分-nude photos of them, either real or 偽の, to their friends and family unless they 支払う／賃金 up.

The NCA 警告するd yesterday that at least three children killed themselves as a result. In December, Murray Dowey, 16, from Dunblane, Perthshire, took his own life hours after 存在 的d in a sextortion ゆすり，恐喝 陰謀（を企てる） with 可能性のある links to Nigeria.

Murray's grieving mother Ros Dowey 問題／発行するd a desperate 嘆願 to other young 犠牲者s of the scams. 'Please don't do what Murray did. Nothing is 価値（がある） taking your own life. Nothing,' she said.?'No 事柄 how terrified and awful you're feeling at the moment, that will pass and this can be 直す／買収する，八百長をするd.'?

Murray Dowey, 16, (pictured) took his own life hours after being targeted in a sextortion blackmail plot with potential links to Nigeria

Murray Dowey, 16, (pictured) took his own life hours after 存在 的d in a sextortion ゆすり，恐喝 陰謀（を企てる） with 可能性のある links to Nigeria

Dinal De Alwis, 16, (pictured) had just started sixth form when he killed himself after being blackmailed on social media over nude photographs
Dinal De Alwis, 16, (pictured) had just started sixth form when he killed himself after being blackmailed on social media over nude photographs

Dinal De Alwis, 16, (pictured) had just started sixth form when he killed himself after 存在 ゆすり，恐喝d on social マスコミ over nude photographs

Mark and Ros Dowey said there 'world has been shattered' since losing their son Murray

示す and Ros Dowey said there 'world has been 粉々にするd' since losing their son Murray

'They've 全く destroyed our family,' Mrs Dowey told the BBC.?

In October 2022, Dinal De Alwis, 16, from Sutton, south London, killed himself after 存在 ゆすり，恐喝d by a stranger 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd to be in Nigeria （人命などを）奪う，主張するing to have nude pictures of him.

Police say all age groups and genders are 存在 的d, but a large 割合 of 事例／患者s have 伴う／関わるd male 十代の少年少女s 老年の from 14 to 18.

Teen who took his own life over £100 Snapchat 脅し?

Dinal De Alwis had just started sixth form with hopes of 熟考する／考慮するing at Cambridge when he was sent two nude photographs of himself by a blackmailer on Snapchat.

The sender 脅すd to 今後 the pictures to all of his friends unless he paid £100.

The 16-year-old, 熟考する／考慮するing at a 主要な 私的な school ? Whitgift in south London ? was 設立する dead later that night. His blackmailer had sent a message 説: 'So you think 封鎖するing me can stop me? What do you want me to do ? you want me to send to all of your 信奉者s? Why can't you just 支払う／賃金 me? £100?'

An 検死 in February 支配するd that the keen footballer and rugby player had committed 自殺 after 存在 ゆすり，恐喝d by a stranger 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd to be in Nigeria.

His family, from Sutton, south London, 述べるd him as their 'golden boy'. He had 達成するd straight A*s in his GCSEs.

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