A prolific intercourse offender who abused practically 50 youngsters after posing as a teenage boy on Snapchat and Instagram has been jailed for 27 years.

David John Andrews, 55, from Northern Eire, had pleaded responsible to 130 expenses of sexual abuse, which includes 47 victims, 46 of whom are youngsters.

His youngest sufferer was an eight-year-old lady.

Many of the offences relate to so-called catfishing, the place an individual pretends to be another person on-line to deceive others, however some relate to the direct abuse of a weak grownup girl.

Police have mentioned it’s clear his offending, which concerned coercing victims into sending him nude pictures, unfold throughout the UK.

PSNI Detective Chief Inspector Jill Duffie described Andrews as a “heinous youngster predator”.

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