Coleen Rooney left 'sickened' at blackmail plot over pictures of son Kai

Coleen Rooney has been left shaken by a blackmail attempt over personal photos.

The 24-year-old was said to be 'sickened' at the plot to extort money after thieves got hold of a camera containing a memory card with more than 100 images of 15-month-old Kai.

The perpetrators were threatening to sell them unless the couple stumped up a five-figure sum.

A source told Closer: 'She has been left shaken to the core over the latest incident... She was really upset.

'She was sickened that strangers had taken the camera and were trying to use such personal and private pictures to make some money.'

It's said that the star has stepped up security as a result and last week, it emerged three people were arrested over the attempted scam.

Police were tipped off and the trio - two men and a woman - were arrested in September in a sting operation.

Coleen was with Wayne, 25, at The Black Eyed Peas gig at Manchester's MEN Arena in May last year when she accidentally left the camera in a £2,500-a-night private box.

It is believed an extortion gang grabbed Coleen’s camera after she put it down on a table in the hospitality suite during the concert.

When she got back to their luxury £4.5m home in Prestbury, Cheshire, Coleen realised she had left the camera behind and frantically called bosses at the venue to ask of they could retrieve it.

A mystery middle man later contacted the couple to warn the private photos would be published on the Internet unless they handed over the money - which was in excess of £10,000.

But police were called in and officers staged an elaborate undercover sting operation in which a series of telephone exchanges were secretly taped.

They later arrested two men, aged 28 and 41, and a woman aged 25 in a dramatic swoop.

It is the latest in a series of personal setbacks for the WAG.