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Anthony Burns: Online predator who blackmailed women into carrying out acts of child abuse jailed for 24 years | UK News<\/p>\n
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An online predator who blackmailed dozens of women around the world into performing sexual and degrading acts, including child abuse, has been jailed for 24 years.<\/p>\n
Anthony Burns, originally from Lowestoft in Suffolk, used multiple online identities when engaging with the women on the internet.<\/p>\n
On one occasion he posed as the head of a model agency searching for clients, while on another he pretended to be an officer with the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA).<\/p>\n
Once the 39-year-old had gained the trust of his victims he would move the conversation over to WhatsApp.<\/p>\n
The women were ordered to film themselves carrying out sexual acts in the belief they would be paid \u00a3600 but the money was never transferred to them.<\/p>\n
Read more:<\/strong> When he had received enough explicit material, Burns threatened to expose the images to their families and friends unless they sent more increasingly depraved photographs and videos.<\/p>\n Burns had 39 victims – ranging in age from eight to 54 – made up of women he blackmailed and children who were subsequently abused.<\/p>\n One of the victims was an eight-year-old girl in the US, who was abused by her mother following sustained coercion by Burns. The FBI helped officers track down his victims in the US.<\/p>\n Most of his other victims lived in England but he also targeted people in the Channel Islands and Australia.<\/p>\n Sentencing Burns to a 24-year custodial term and an extended five-year period on licence following his eventual release, Judge Sarah Buckingham said: “Your offending took place over a two-and-a-half-year period.<\/p>\n “You did not care about the anguish you caused and had complete disregard for your victims’ suffering.”<\/p>\n She told the 39-year-old he was someone who was “arrogant with a deep-seated cruel streak” and had caused “immense harm and distress”.<\/p>\n ‘Very young children severely traumatised by remorseless cruelty’<\/strong><\/p>\n The UK’s NCA arrested Burns in February 2019.<\/p>\n NCA operations manager Robert Slater said: “Anthony Burns showed remorseless cruelty in controlling and coercing his victims, including very young children, into acts which have left them severely traumatised.”<\/p>\n Burns worked with, and has been described as a “pupil” of, the notorious online child sex offender Adbul Elahi<\/strong>, who was jailed by the same judge for 32 years in December 2021 after targeting 2,000 people globally to commit sadistic online abuse.<\/p>\n Judge Buckingham added: “You needed no encouragement. You were no junior partner – you encouraged him.”<\/p>\n After his arrest, Burns was charged with 46 counts – including blackmail, attempted blackmail, causing a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity, arranging the commission of a child sex offence; making and distributing indecent images of children, possessing extreme pornography, malicious communications offences and failure to comply with notification requirements.<\/p>\n He admitted 39 counts and was found guilty of a further two last August, following a two-day trial at Birmingham Crown Court.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u062f\u0631<\/a>
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