Faces of callous bullies who used blackmail to force cash out of their victims' pockets
August has seen twisted blackmailer Zeashan Mahmood jailed for extorting two women out of more than £86,000. His victims spoke about how their lives were destroyed by shame as he used private photographs against them to bully them into handing over their money.
Zeashan Mahmood, of Foxtail Close in Clifton in Fylde, pleaded guilty to two counts of blackmail and three counts of distributing indecent images with intent to cause distress. During the trial at Preston Crown Court, two victims came forward to testify in the case against Mahmood. Kamar Ilyas, 34, slept with the two victims, who felt compelled to keep their sexuality a secret from their communities, before the plot developed into aggressive threats. The scheme involved threatening to tell the wives of the victims and share explicit footage of the sexual encounters on social media.
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