Terrified women paid vile thug £80k after he made disgusting threats to expose them

A vile bully threatened to share intimate pictures and videos of two women in a 'horrific' blackmail campaign. Zeashan Mahmood, 30, was jailed on Wednesday (August 10) after his two victims bravely testified against him in court.

The case, which was investigated by Greater Manchester Police and Lancashire Police, heard that Mahmood made various fake Instagram accounts to hound his victims, who in total sent him over £80,000 in a desperate attempt to stop the images being shared.

After being reported to the police, he then sent a victim Moonpig cards demanding further cash, threatening to tell their families. He even sent one an email saying "guess who is alive" and another with her intimate pictures attached to it.

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One of his victims had disclosed private pictures and videos to Mahmood in 2017. In January 2018, he told her he was in financial difficulty and pressured her to send him money.

He then contacted her via Instagram under an alias and threatened her, demanding that she send him more money or he would share the private pictures and videos online. He also made threats against her loved ones if she did not comply, so she went on to send him £20,000 in payments.

Mahmood's second victim told the court how she had disclosed to him an intimate sexual experience she had with a boyfriend previously. He went on to claim that he had a video of this incident and then demanded £7,000 from her, all the while threatening that he would send the video to her family and friends if she did not pay the fee.

In addition, Mahmood, of Foxtail Close, Clifton, demanded that the victim send intimate pictures, videos and texts of a sexual nature and that if