Man jailed for over 2 years for using Grindr to blackmail men who weren’t out
From: Pink News A man who blackmailed and threatened to out gay men he met on Grindr has been jailed for two and a half years. Liam Hull, 22, was jailed after being told by a judge that he had committed “attempted murder of the soul”, reports Luton On Sunday . He received thousands of pounds in blackmail money from his victims, some of who were married to women and had children, but were used Grindr to hook up with men. One victim paid him thousands of pounds, and another came out to his wife after the threats. A third suffered a mild stroke following the threats. The perpetrator pleaded guilty to three counts of blackmail. He was told by Judge Richard Foster of the Former Chief Justice Lord Lane’s words on blackmail. Judge Foster said: “Lord Lane said that in the calendar of criminal offences, blackmail was one of the ugliest and most vicious because it involved what one found so often, the attempted murder of the soul.” Hull had used Grindr to contact dozens of victims across the ...