In 2021, following a harrowing campaign of online abuse, Shaquille Williams, a graphic designer, was found guilty of terrorising six females.
One victim was blackmailed by Shaquille Williams, a 25-year-old individual, by threatening to send private sexual photographs of her to her family and friends.
The 25-year-old, who attempted to direct the images, promised to do so unless she sent him additional ones.
Abdul Hasib Elahi, 26, had previously targeted the victim as a sadistic blackmailer and paedophile.
In a separate National Crime Agency investigation, Elahi has admitted to sickening online offences and is currently awaiting sentencing.
Abdul Hasib Elahi, 26, was admitted for a total of 158 offences.
- compelled victims worldwide to subject themselves, their siblings, and their children to horrific torture through blackmail;
— sold the footage as “box sets” to other perpetrators;
- offered “master classes” on the encrypted Telegram app to assist paedophiles in evading detection;
- his victims were as young as eight months old.
He targeted victims who were either in debt or too young to be legally on the sites and deceived them into sending him naked or partially clad images of themselves.
Additionally, he employed social media platforms to target specific victims.
To persuade victims, he sent fake screenshots of money leaving his account in similar transactions and promised to pay thousands of pounds for posed images.
Elahi, a resident of Sparkhill, Birmingham, used sugar daddy websites to impersonate a businessman or stockbroker. He then enticed victims to send him sexually explicit images of themselves.
Subsequently, he coerced them into recording themselves engaging in increasingly degrading behaviours and transmitting the footage to him.
Williams, of Hartness Road, Clifton, Nottingham, acquired a portion of the footage that Elahi posted online.
Williams was found guilty of blackmailing the victim between January 10, 2019, and May 10, 2019, by a jury at Nottingham Crown Court today.
Additionally, the jury found him guilty of three counts of harassing three women and placing them in fear of violence between April 18 and May 21, 2019.
Williams was also convicted of two counts of sending grossly offensive communications to two other women.
Williams, a university graduate, sent the women a series of vile messages, including images of acid attack victims, through a variety of social media accounts.
One victim received messages that included her hometown name, a photograph of hydrochloric acid, and a message featuring her road name.
Williams is scheduled to be sentenced on August 18.
Kirsty Nicholls, 35, a defendant from Middlesex, had previously pleaded guilty to two charges of sexual assault of a minor and one of making an indecent photo. She was acquainted with Elahi through a sugar daddy website.
Elahi and Nicholls will be sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court on September 9 and 10.
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