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Today in Focus

How do we protect teenagers from sextortion scams?

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Murray Dowey, a 16-year-old from Dunblane, was targeted by a sextortion scammer in the hours before he took his own life. Now his parents are raising awareness of this increasingly prevalent crime. Libby Brooks reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian. Today, the life and death of Murray Dowie, how one teenager in Scotland fell victim to a

0:16.9

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A warning before we start, this episode discusses suicide and the loss of a child. He was really, really, really bright, really funny. He was really good company. His passions were Sterling Albian in the football team. That's what he and his friends did every weekend.

1:36.5

They go to all the home games and quite a lot of the way games as well. He played the guitar for a long time.

1:48.0

And just really sociable. He loved being out and about with his friends. You know, they were sort of out a lot together.

1:53.0

He was just a nice easy-going kid. He was very bright. He did really well in his nap five, he's, and a bit six he's, and a bee.

1:57.0

Have he got a bee for a heart?

1:59.0

I'll never know, because he was a maze in a heart, but anyway.

2:02.0

He'd ever have him in front of him and he was just, you know, same as any teenager,

2:10.0

there was difficult bits of his teenage years, know he was a bit grumpy a bit

2:15.6

aloof you know but um that he was definitely coming out the other side of that you know

2:22.4

and it's a real blossoming into a young adult.

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