Man charged over gay website blackmail claims

Gardaí charged a man yesterday with demanding thousands of euro with menaces arising out of an investigation into alleged blackmailing of men using a gay dating website.

Neil Duggan, aged 45, of Riverside Rise, Rushbrooke, Cobh, Co Cork, was charged following a six-month investigation that a man was blackmailed after he was accused of linking up with a young man on the site only to learn that the teenager was a minor.

Mr Duggan was charged with demanding €2,500 with menaces from the 60-year-old complainant at Spur Hill in Cork on April 11, 2017.