Online child sex groomer jailed for 30 years

Bilal Kazi, aged 27, was sentenced to 30 years in prison at Chester Crown Court on November 13, 2026 after admitting 33 child sex offences relating to 19 identified victims, though investigators believe he preyed on more than 70 young girls. Kazi targeted children on Snapchat, Wizz, Wink and Roblox, using a bogus photo and the alias Reece to pose as a 14-year-old boy, grooming victims into sending indecent images and then threatening to leak the material online unless further images were provided, conduct prosecutors characterized as sextortion. The defendant pressured victims while they were at school and left many with severe psychological damage, Chester Crown Court heard.

Kazi's progression from initial contact through manipulation to sustained blackmail illustrates the grooming and sextortion pattern Guardii's detection system is built to interrupt. Guardii detects coercive escalation and sustained targeting in children's direct-message conversations in real time, blocking or flagging hostile contact before it reaches the child and surfacing a child in crisis to a parent, school or professional without handing anyone a feed of what was said. The anti-grooming and anti-sextortion modules identify the shape and seriousness of a conversation as it unfolds across platforms including Snapchat and Roblox, enabling intervention at first contact rather than after months of abuse have produced sufficient evidence for prosecution.