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December 11, 2025
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UK court jails two men for encouraging girls to self-harm

UK court jails two men for encouraging girls to self-harm

Charlie Johnson, 24, and Prince Singh, 23, encouraged their victims, who were aged 16 and 17, to carve their names into themselves, before sharing the images in an online chatroom on the Discord platf.....

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A London court has jailed two men, Charlie Johnson and Prince Singh, for encouraging "vulnerable" teenage girls to self-harm, marking one of the UK's first such convictions under the Online Safety Act 2023.

  • Johnson received a sentence of four years in prison, while Singh was sentenced to two years and nine months.
  • The victims, aged 16 and 17, were encouraged to carve the men's names into themselves, with images shared on Discord.
  • Both men were also convicted of taking and distributing indecent photographs of a child, and the case was described as "quite a novel case" by Judge Ruth Downing.

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