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Blackmailer who targeted men on gay dating website is jailed
Sam Shepherd chatted with the two victims, threatened to expose them as paedophiles and squeezed them for £40,000
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When two men decided to go onto a same sex dating website their lives were destroyed.
For laying in wait on FabGuys.com was Sam Shepherd, who met both and told them he would expose them as paedophiles unless they loaded him with cash.
Sam Shepherd was sentenced to six years in prison.
Thug Sam Shepherd extorted £40,000 from gay men he met on a dating site by threatening to expose them as paedophiles, a court has heard.
Shepherd, 28, from Portsmouth, was sentenced to six years in prison in Bristol Crown Court after he pleaded guilt to two charges of blackmail, according to the
Shepherd targeted his two victims after meeting them on FabGuys.com, prosecutor Charley Pattison told the court.
After striking up a conversation with his first victim, Shepherd threatened to expose him for talking to a minor. The victim denied that he had done so, but he agreed to supply the man with money to stop him from making the accusations public.
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