Police arrest two men in Nigeria accused of sextortion of Australian schoolboy who killed himself

If he didn’t pay, they threatened to send his pictures to his family and school friends. Photo: Getty

Shweta Sharma
© UK Independent

Two people have been arrested in Nigeria over an alleged sextortion racket involving an Australian schoolboy.

The New South Wales (NSW) teenager, who had traded explicit pictures online with the accused men, killed himself last year after they started to blackmail him.