Talented schoolboy, 16, took own life after being blackmailed by sick sextortion scammers posing as young girl

THE heartbroken parents of a talented teenager have told how he took his own life after being targeted in a ‘sextortion’ blackmail plot.

Murray Dowey, 16, was contacted online by someone posing as a young woman who claimed to be keen to strike up a friendship.

But the schoolboy was tricked into sending an intimate image before being blackmailed with it.

Murray, of Dunblane, Perthshire, tragically died by suicide just hours later, on December 30 last year.