Other victims said Dismore, who again posed as a teenage boy called James, forced them into sending him indecent images of themselves.

One said he threatened to stab her five-year-old sibling and had taken her innocence, while another said she did not want to send him pictures of herself but “he put me under such pressure I felt I had to”.

Another said she was 13 when she joined social media and was “naive” and “trusting”.

She said “James” seemed “nice” and “decent” and would leap to her defence online when other accounts posted “nasty” comments about her.

It was later discovered Dismore was behind those accounts too and he was grooming her to gain her trust, the court heard.

The girl said Dismore went on to threaten her family and told her he had a camera in her home which caused her to live “on edge”.

After being told by police he had stabbed another girl, the girl said she realised she had been “lucky” as it “could so easily have been me” who was attacked.

Another victim said she spent three years being “bombarded” with “rude, hateful and inappropriate” messages from Dismore and he used personal information to “blackmail” her, taking away a time of “fun and enjoyment”.

She said she was left with paranoia and anxiety, adding: “I spent years wondering why someone unknown to me could hate me so much and with such venom.”

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