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Man Who Posed As Teen Boy To Groom 70 UK Girls Online Gets 30 Years

Man Who Posed As Teen Boy To Groom 70 UK Girls Online Gets 30 Years

Chester Crown Court, Chris McKenna, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Bilal Kazi, a 27-year-old former University of Chester student, was jailed for 30 years after grooming at least 70 girls aged 10 to 17 across the UK. Posing as a 14-year-old boy called Reece on Snapchat, Wink and Roblox, he pushed victims into sending explicit images and blackmailed them. He must serve at least 20 years and stays on the sex offenders register for life.

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