Canberra teen used as 'willing bait' in Grindr extortion sent to detention

By Megan Gorrey
Updated April 24 2018 - 9:24pm, first published September 19 2017 - 8:19am

A teenager used as "bait" to lure a man who died by suicide hours after he was blackmailed by a group of males who targeted men on a gay hook-up app and threatened to out them as paedophiles will spend four months in detention.

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