The father and daughter driven to suicide by the 'UK's most prolific catfisher': 'Angelic' schoolgirl, 12, shot herself after online monster blackmailed her over topless photos before her heartbroken dad killed himself too

This is the first picture of the ‘angelic’ schoolgirl who took her own life rather than submit to the depraved demands of the world’s most prolific ‘catfish’ abuser.

Cimarron Thomas, 12, used her father’s handgun to take her own life after being blackmailed online by computer student Alexander McCartney.

She can be named for the first time after an order preventing her identity being revealed was lifted by a judge at Belfast Crown Court.

McCartney has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of the American youngster and faces life imprisonment when he is sentenced next week.

Eighteen months after the young girl took her own life her grief-stricken father Ben, a former US army veteran, took his own life, Belfast Crown Court was told.

Cimarron Thomas (pictured) was subject to sick blackmailing online by McCartney and used her father's handgun to take her own life

Cimarron Thomas (pictured) was subject to sick blackmailing online by McCartney and used her father's handgun to take her own life

Cimarron Thomas (pictured) was subject to sick blackmailing online by McCartney and used her father’s handgun to take her own life 

Alexander McCartney (pictured), 26, operated from the bedroom of his family home in rural Northern Ireland and persuaded young girls to send naked pictures of themselves

Alexander McCartney (pictured), 26, operated from the bedroom of his family home in rural Northern Ireland and persuaded young girls to send naked pictures of themselves

Alexander McCartney (pictured), 26, operated from the bedroom of his family home in rural Northern Ireland and…

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