A 23-year-old man who convinced his victim to attempt suicide and seriously self-harm online has become the first person sentenced under new internet safety laws.
Tyler Webb, from Loughborough, Leicestershire, was sentenced to nine years and four months imprisonment, subject to a hospital order.
He will be taken back to the secure mental health hospital where he is being treated in Chesterfield.
Once his doctors decide he is well enough to be discharged, he will serve out whatever time he has left in prison and will then be assessed by a board as to whether he is fit to be released.
Webb is the first person in the country to be charged with encouraging serious self-harm online under Section 184 of the Online Safety Act 2023.
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