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A JUDGE branded a paedophile who was a key figure in twisted online child abuse groups that shared sex abuse material of children including babies as being in a "different statosphere of crimianlity" before jailing him for more than 11 years. Joao Teixeira, 26, (above) was found in possession of 17,005 indecent images of children on his devices, Lewes Crown Court heard today, during a National Crime Agency (NCA) probe into the use of Telegram and Signal by sick online crime g

Two men who raped a vulnerable girl in Rotherham over 25 years ago have been jailed today, 22 December 2025, following a National Crime Agency (NCA) historic grooming investigation. Kessur Ajaib, 44, (above left) and Mohammed Makhmood, 43, (above right) both of Rotherham, were aged between 18 and 20 at the time of offending. Ajaib and Makhmood raped the victim, aged around 14, over a period of more than two years, starting in 1999. The girl was attacked by Ajaib while out in

A PAEDOPHILE who admitted a string of child sex offences, including being a key figure in two twisted online crime groups, is trying to get a reduced sentence by telling police he will report a man who "sexually abused him as a child." Joao Teixeira, 25, (above) yesterday, December 10 2025, admitted 12 charges at Lewes Crown Court. These included two counts each of being involved in an organised crime group and two of facilitating the sexual exploitation of children by being

A BRITISH man who was a key figure in an international online child abuse platform that exploited at least 25 underage UK girls, from the home he shared with his mother has been jailed for seven and a half years. Bradley Talbot, 29, from Portsmouth, was a 'moderator' on a twisted Telegram group that incited girls aged 12 to 17 and groomed online into sex acts that were filmed and livestreamed to about 6,000 members across the globe. The group had 'poster girls' and degraded i

A MAN suspected of being a high-ranking member of a Syrian people smuggling gang which arranged crossings of the Mediterranean was at large in the UK for at least a year after entering the country via a Channel boat under a false name. The arrest by the National Crime Agency (NCA) Extradition Unit of Ayman Al Taleb, 41, in the Rusholme area of Manchester on 13 November 2025, has raised fresh concerns over the security risk posed by the Channel crossings. Al Taleb is wanted by

A MAN who raped a girl in Rotherham around 25 years ago when he was 14 has been jailed today, November 11 2025 at Sheffield Crown Court. Sageer Hussain, 40, who is already serving a 19-year-jail sentence for raping a girl, was sentenced to a further three years in prison for raping a second girl, following an investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA). Hussain, a British national of Pakistani heritage, and the girl were both aged about 14 at the time. The girl used to s

THOUSANDS of "cash" premises have been targeted by law enforcement in a major operation. The second wave of the National Crime Agency (NCA) led Operation Machinize saw the criminal exploitation of high street businesses targeted. Conducted in cooperation with the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), it ran throughout October and involved every UK police force and Regional Organised Crime Unit, Home Office Immigration Enforcement, Trading Standards, HM Revenue and Customs a

MORE than 230 previously closed grooming gang investigations are being reviewed by the "national police operation" led by the National Crime Agency (NCA) it can be revealed. Dubbed Operation Beaconport, the probe will be one of the biggest ever policing operations the country has ever seen, but the NCA was today unable to confirm its budget. It will review cases where police forces (across England and Wales) and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) made the decision to take no

A Bord er Force officer has been charged with conspiring to import class A drugs following an investigation by the National Crime Agency. Syed Shah, 39, of Hodge Hill, Birmingham was arrested by NCA officers on Friday 24 October at Birmingham Airport after the discovery of 25kgs of heroin in the suitcase of Zahida Perveen, aged 67, from Openshaw, Manchester. She was arrested shortly after arriving into Birmingham Airport on a flight from Pakistan. A third individual, Shahid B

A CORONER has called for a proposed law banning information about homemade firearms to be urgently brought into force after a teenager ended his life with one. Owen Donnelly, 19, took his own life with a homemade improvised gun, at his Wigan home, Timothy Brennand, HM Senior Coroner, for Greater Manchester West, concluded after an inquest at Bolton Coroner’s Court this month. Yet, Mr Brennand highlighted that proposed legislation banning the possession and supply of informati