Alert issued to ALL UK children over online ‘sextortion epidemic’: Police warn foreign gangs are blackmailing hundreds of kids over intimate pics – as mother of victim, 16, who took his own life issues plea to other desperate youngsters

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