Blackmail gang geek walks free

A leading member of an ‘evil’ online extortion gang who helped blackmailers prey on vulnerable young girls has been spared jail. Richard Ehiemere, 21, stored photos of children on his devices after coercing them into sharing the images. The computer expert had 142 ‘combo lists’ of stolen email addresses and passwords used to blackmail victims who were forced to perform sexual acts in chat rooms. Ehiemere was a leading member of an online criminal gang known as ‘CVLT’ and went…