Indian PhD student Bilal Kazi jailed in UK for 30 years for preying on young girls on Snapchat. He was overstaying his student visa

27-year-old Bilal Kazi, an Indian PhD student who tricked more than 70 girls into sharing explicit images by posing online as a teenage boy, has been jailed for 30 years. He created a fake online profile posing as a blond-haired boy called Reece.

He used to chat with young girls, as young as ten, and then convinced them to believe that they were in a relationship. Then Kazi asked for sexually explicit photos and if they refused, he used to threaten them.A court heard that one 13-year-old victim attempted suicide after Kazi circulated an explicit video of the victim that was seen by almost 100 of her friends.