June 2023 Man who blackmailed girls to send indecent images jailed A Doncaster man who blackmailed several teenagers and young adults via social media has been jailed. Daniel Carr, 27, of Violet Avenue, met the victims, who were aged between 15 and 25, via social networking sites between 2020 and 2022. The court heard how in April 2022, Carr hacked the Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok accounts of a 17-year-old boy. Once he had successfully gained access to the accounts, Carr used the hacked accounts to message a number of girls and women from the account requesting they send him explicit images. After this was reported to police, further investigations by officers found that on a series of earlier occasions between 2020 and 2022, Carr hacked the social media accounts of a number of other victims. On several occasions he made threats to victims, stating they must hand over cash, send further explicit images, or perform sexual acts on camera, otherwise he would leak explicit images he had of them to family and friends. In one instance, he forced a 15-year-old girl to perform sexual acts on camera after he struck up a fake online relationship with her using a hacked social media account. Carr pleaded guilty to 16 charges at Sheffield Crown Court on 19 December 2022. These included four counts of blackmail, four counts of disclose or threatening to disclose private sexual photographs and films with intent to cause distress, and one count of causing a female 13 or over to engage in a non-penetrative sexual activity. He was previously remanded into custody and has now been sentenced to six years in prison. He has also been handed a sexual harm prevention order preventing him from committing further online sexual offences, and has been placed on the sexual offenders register for an indefinite period.