A former children’s holiday camp manager pretended to be a 16-year-old girl online to groom more than 70 teenage boys.

Cameron Osman used the online alias ‘Lizzielemon’ to identify his victims on Instagram, MyLol and Love Crush. 

The 44-year-old, of Coniston Road in Southampton, then moved his victims, some of who were from Norwich, on to Google Hangouts, Discord and Skype.

He engaged his victims in sexualised chat revolving around a fantasy online world and never identified himself - instead telling victims his camera was broken.

Osman would tell his victims that ‘Lizzielemon’ was from Bristol or Birmingham, that he had a fetish for dominating boys in school uniform and sports kit, and for conducting teacher and student role plays.

The offending took place between 2020 and 2021.

The National Crime Agency tracked Osman down to a friend’s address in Crowborough, East Sussex, in September 2021 and arrested him.

He had resigned from his job at a holiday camp activity centre in Hailsham a few days earlier.

His laptop and mobile phone were seized and Osman was found to have contacted 76 boys in the UK aged between 12 and 16 during the offending period. 

Officers found no evidence of Osman grooming children at the activity centre.

Osman had chat logs showing sexualised communication with underage boys in 27 countries and was released on bail as the investigation continued.

But he went on to offend again, leading to his arrest on March 27 after a further victim was identified.

He pretended to be a younger man on this occasion and shared photos of himself.

Osman appeared at St Albans Crown Court on Tuesday, May 2, where he pleaded guilty to 36 separate charges, including attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity, causing a child to engage in sexual activity, sexual communication with a child and making two category C indecent images of children.

Osman is due to be sentenced at St Albans Crown Court on Friday, June 30.