Philip O’Shea is a prolific online predator who lurked behind fake profiles, first coming across as charming friendly and flirty, then going in for the kill in an orgy of cruelty. 

He forced them to send compromising pictures of themselves to him, blackmailing them not for money but for his own perverted satisfactions.  

Sharon O’Neill tells Ciarán Dunbar how he managed to ensnare his victims.

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