Time to get away

ring,” added the mother-of-three. The ex-criminal lawyer believed that, after a troubled early childhood of bullying back home in Liverpool, a move to Spain would do her son some good.

While he spent most of his time in his room on computers, she felt his reclusive nature would at least keep him safe from ‘a world on the out- side which he was illequipped to navigate.’

However, O’Connor was part of a hacking ring that shocked the online world when it managed to very publicly penetrate Twitter’s detailed security in 2020.

The scam involved posting directly to an estimated 350 million followers of Elon Musk, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian and Bill Gates accounts, among many others.

Stalked

One bogus tweet from Biden read: “I am giving back to the community. All bitcoin sent to the address below will be sent back doubled! If you send $1,000, I will send back $2,000. Only doing this for 30 minutes.”

Although the ploy seemed an obvious fraud, an analysis revealed that 13 Bitcoins were transferred to the hackers’ wallet in 383 transactions in the following 24 hours - or $117,000 (€107,000).

O’Connor also stalked underage girls and tried to extort famous people on other social networks, such as TikTok and Snapchat.

He hacked the actress Bella Thorne and stole 13 naked photos which he threatened to release if she did not promote his social accounts.

“It’ll be the entire internet looking at your personal shit,” one of his group of hacker friends wrote to her.

Thorne posted the pictures herself. “F*** u and the power you think u have over me,” she replied. “The FBI will be at your house shortly.”

O’Connor had laughed off the dangers of the US authorities when the New York Continues on Page 2

Attempted murder

A MAN killed himself with the same firearm he used to shoot his wife in Torrox (Malaga). The woman was admitted to hospital in a serious condition.

Big whale

A DEAD humpback whale almost 10 metre long has been found on a Galician beach, the first such find since 2011.

Brit abuser

A 61-YEAR-OLD British man has been arrested and handed over to an anti-domestic violence court in Malaga on suspicion of assaulting his partner on a holiday flight from the UK to Malaga.

It’s a bust

MURCIA Local Police have apologised to singer Rocio Saiz after an officer stopped the artist’s gay pride concert after she showed her boobs.

ITALIAN and Spanish police are investigating if a man who allegedly murdered two women in Torremolinos is responsible for other killings back home.

Marco Gaio Romeo, of Nettuno (Italy), was arrested for stabbing his 28-year-old ex Paula to death at her apartment in May.

Police later realised that a previous part- ner of the killer had disappeared in 2014. He then told them the body of Albanian Sibora Gagani was walled up in his old apartment.

Now Italian and Spanish authorities are investigating to see if the 45-year-old is linked to missing women in the Italian area of Nettuno.