Schools' 'sextortion epidemic' alert: Teachers are warned foreign gangs are blackmailing hundreds of children online over intimate pics - as mother of boy, 16, who killed himself tells victims 'no matter how terrified you feel, this can be fixed'
In December, Murray Dowey, 16, (pictured) from Dunblane, Perthshire, took his own life hours after being targeted in a sextortion blackmail plot with potential links to Nigeria .