'They killed our son': Online scammers tearing families apart as sextortion cases soar | I

When Murray Dowey left his parents watching television downstairs to go up to his bedroom he was a happy sixteen-year-old boy. Just hours later, Murray had taken his own life, having become the latest victim of a surge of sextortion cases in the UK. Murray, 16, from Dunblane was contacted on social media by someone claiming to be a young girl but was actually a scammer, who tricked him into sending an intimate image and then blackmailed him with it. • Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2lOHmNj • Get breaking news and more stories at http://www.itv.com/news Follow ITV News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/itvnews/ Follow ITV News on Twitter: https://twitter.com/itvnews Follow ITV News on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itvnews/