Hello and welcome to MailOnline’s live coverage as Alexander McCartney, one of the UK’s most notorious catfishers, is sentenced at Belfast Crown Court.
McCartney, 26, has admitted more than 180 charges including including blackmail and child sexual abuse after tricklng dozens of victims over a four-year period.
He also pleaded guilty to manslaughter after Cimarron Thomas, 12, from West Virginia, US, shot herself after she was blackmailed online.
McCartney, from County Armagh, was snared after one of the largest investigations in the world into so-called catfishing after he duped his victims into thinking he was a young girl.
We will bring you live updates from his sentencing hearing with our reporter Paul Thompson primed and ready at Belfast Crown Court.
The sentencing hearing is scheduled to start at 2pm.
