A blackmailer who targeted vulnerable victims for an elaborate sex plot was caught because his DNA was discovered on a handwritten ransom demand.
Victims were lured into Kevin Proctor's callous scheme after being randomly sent photographs of a young women who claimed she needed help. When the victims were duped into exchanging explicit photographs with "Stephanie Dunn" they were then hit with a ransom demand from a mystery man.
Proctor - posing as "Barry" - left his victims terrified and one paid out a four-figure sum to buy his silence rather than report them to the police. On Tuesday, the unemployed 41-year-old admitted extorting £1,200 from one victim by putting him in a state of fear or alarm from December 1 2020 to January 19 2021.
