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Updated: 8:15am
POLICE IN NORTHERN Ireland have charged a 46-year-old man with fraud by false representation and harassment.
The man was arrested in the Northampton area in England on Wednesday as part of a PSNI investigation into online blackmail.
He was brought to Northern Ireland where he was questioned at a police station in Belfast.
Police said the investigation began after a woman made a complaint about online exploitation.
The man is due to appear at Dungannon Magistrates Court later this morning.
The charges are being reviewed by Northern Ireland’s Public Prosecution Service.
First published 17 November. Comments have been disabled on this article for legal reasons.
online blackmail?
i wonder what the accusation is.
All too frequent occurrence Ireland these days, need to follow UK and put a better harassment law in place
It’s in the UK.
more laws?
how about the authorities start enforcing the ones we already have first.
It is getting more and more common though , unless you’ve gone through it yourself you have no idea the effect it has on a person
I tried something similar in Dublin. Gardai took my pc as evidence to investigate and wiped the hard drive! Case closed
Theresa do you mean you tried to report an incident of online blackmail of harassment and they wiped your hard drive by accident so there was no evidence to prosecute? Sounds like you were the offender from your post!
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