"Charlie Johnson, 24, and Prince Singh, 23, wanted their victims to be "scarred for life" after encouraging them to carve names into themselves. They then shared images of those acts in an online chatroom. Johnson and Singh were charged in April 2025 with a number of offences relating to two girls, who were 16 and 17 at the time of the offences. The offences took place throughout 2024 and into January 2025."
"One of the girls said Johnson, who was in his 20s when they met, "weaponised" her youth, and said she still has "nightmares of the abuse". She said: "I was made to feel like everything was my fault, even when he hurt me." She added: "Emotionally I felt worthless for a long time, I felt disposable and I even felt guilty that he was facing consequences.""
"Judge Downing said: "I am of the view that both these men took a deeply unhealthy interest in this idea in encouraging others, young women, inevitably women, to self-harm." The judge also described the pair treating their "deliberate planned acts" as a "game", picking vulnerable victims."
Two men coerced vulnerable teenage girls into serious self-harm by encouraging them to carve names and then shared images of those acts in an online chatroom. The offences involved two girls aged 16 and 17, occurred throughout 2024 into January 2025, and led to charges in April 2025. Charlie Johnson was jailed for four years and Prince Singh for two years and nine months; Johnson was also convicted of physical abuse. Judge Ruth Downing said the pair had a mutual interest in encouraging schoolgirls to self-harm and treated their deliberate, planned acts as a game. One victim described long-lasting emotional harm and nightmares. The case is the first jury conviction under the Online Safety Act 2023 for assisting or encouraging serious self-harm.
Read at www.independent.co.uk
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]