Ruthless Nigerian Gang Aids Teen Suicide In UK

Ronan Hughes was 17 when he took his own life, hours after a
ruthless Nigerian gang in the UK threatened to send intimate pictures of him to
his Facebook friends. His parents have said their “quiet,
happy-go-lucky” child had been tricked into sending images of himself on a
social networking site after receiving pictures of a girl. The Nigerian gang
however demanded a sum of £3,300 from the teen boy just not to post his
picture.

Mrs Hughes said her son, a pupil at St Joseph’s Grammar
School in Donaghmore, confided to her near midnight three days before he died.
“He came to me and said ‘I’m in trouble here’,” she said. Continue…

“He gave me his phone. They were looking for more than
£3,000 for an image he had posted and told him they were going to show it to
all his friends.

“They had sent him a list of all his Facebook friends.
He texted them back to say ‘but I’m only 17’.”

On the day of his death, Mrs Hughes said Ronan called her to
say a friend had contacted him to say she had received a link containing
images, but she had not opened them.

Mr Hughes left work early to go home amid concerns how her
son might react.

When she arrived she found notes on the kitchen table and
then discovered her son’s body in a field behind their home.

The family are now complaining bitterly that the police failed
to give the deceased an assurance that his pictures would not leak online as
threatened by the gang.