A prolific sex offender who abused nearly 50 children after posing as a teenage boy on Snapchat and Instagram has been jailed for 27 years.
David John Andrews, 55, from Northern Ireland, had pleaded guilty to 130 charges of sexual abuse, which involves 47 victims, 46 of whom are children.
His youngest victim was an eight-year-old girl.
Most of the offences relate to so-called catfishing, where a person pretends to be someone else online to deceive others, but some relate to the direct abuse of a vulnerable adult woman.
Police have said it is clear his offending, which involved coercing victims into sending him nude photographs, spread across the UK.
PSNI Detective Chief Inspector Jill Duffie described Andrews as a “heinous child predator”.
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