Farhan Mirza jailed for blackmailing women with photos

A "sexual predator" has been jailed for eight and a half years for blackmailing and spying on Muslim women using intimate photographs and videos he took of them without their knowledge. Farhan Mirza, 38, of Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent, secretly filmed the women and threatened to share the footage before demanding money. Mirza, who denied the charges, met some of the women on online dating sites. He was jailed for voyeurism, blackmail, theft and fraud at Cardiff Crown Court. During the trial, jurors heard Mirza had initially impressed his victims by claiming to be a doctor and hung surgical scrubs in his wardrobe and carried a stethoscope in his car. He also claimed his family were highly educated professionals working in locations around the world.