BLACKPOOL CHILD SEX OFFENDER'S DOUBLE LIFE EXPOSED AS FRIEND REVEALS SHOCKING DISCOVERY
A woman who says she spent years believing Cameron Hay was simply an online gaming friend has described the moment she discovered he had been secretly living what she believes was a disturbing double life.Hay has since been convicted of offences involving communicating with children under the age of 16 for sexual gratification.
The woman says the conviction left her looking back at years of interactions in a completely different light.
The pair first met through online gaming and remained long-distance friends for several years.
They met in person only once, when she travelled from Scotland to Blackpool with two other friends to meet Hay and his then partner in a group setting.
According to her victim impact statement, the turning point came in October 2025 when Hay's former partner contacted her to reveal that police had attended his home over allegations he had been communicating online with children.
She says she was told officers had attended on more than one occasion and had seized electronic devices from the property.
She also says she later became aware of previous allegations involving children of different ages, although there are reporting restrictions relating to earlier proceedings.
Looking back, she says comments Hay regularly made now appear far more sinister.
"Throughout my friendship with Cameron, he frequently made inappropriate jokes and comments about kids, or even me and my body," she said.
"At the time I dismissed it as his sense of humour.
After everything that happened, those comments became deeply concerning." The woman also described what she believes was an elaborate deception involving fake online identities.
She said an unknown Snapchat account contacted her in early 2025, sending photographs of a man she later identified as Culley Riley.
During the conversations, the account claimed to be from Dundee and appeared to know personal details about her.
After learning of Hay's later offending, she says she was shown screenshots allegedly showing him using the same photographs while communicating with a child under 16.
She recognised the images immediately.
"I had already seen those exact photographs," she said.
"They were the same ones that had previously been sent to me." She said the only mutual connection she had with the real owner of the photographs was Cameron Hay, prompting her to alert Hay's former partner, who then informed the man whose images had allegedly been used without his knowledge.
According to the statement, Hay denied sending the photographs to her or creating the Snapchat account, but admitted sending the same photographs to the under-16 victim.
He claimed someone else must have sent them to her.
She says she did not believe that explanation.
"My belief that Cameron was responsible was based on the identical photographs, the similarities in the conversations, the knowledge the account had about me, and Cameron's admission that he had sent the same photographs to the under-16-year-old." The woman also claims Hay carefully concealed his criminal proceedings from those closest to him.
She says his former partner only discovered he had been convicted after accidentally opening a court letter addressed to him.
Until then, she believed his explanations that earlier police investigations had been "a misunderstanding" and that he had been "hacked".
The statement further alleges that even after their relationship ended, Hay continued to manipulate his former partner.
She says he secretly used her bank card after she refused permission, and that she later discovered through an internet search that he had travelled to Burnley on the same day to attend court without telling her.
The woman says the experience has fundamentally changed how she views the years she spent knowing Hay.
