"Sadistic and violent" online gangs of mostly teenage boys are committing crimes, including child abuse and extremism, the ...

The threat from teenage boys drawn into “sadistic” online networks has surged with reports up sixfold in two years, the National Crime Agency has warned. Teenagers are being drawn into online ...

the National Crime Agency (NCA) has said. Philip Waugh, 39, from Warrington, was arrested in the Spanish villa he was renting in September 2024 following a four-year NCA investigation into the ...

The National Crime Agency is a national law enforcement for the United Kingdom, which leads the fight against organised crime, cybercrime, economic crime and trafficking of humans, drugs and weapons.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) raised the groups as a key threat in its annual National Strategic Assessment, published on Tuesday. The groups are loose online networks that share extreme graphic ...

A former Avon and Somerset police officer has been handed a suspended prison sentence after admitting to multiple offences, ...

Hundreds of barbershops have been targeted by police in a three-week crackdown on money laundering and modern slavery, the ...

Violent online groups are recruiting teenagers in Britain, according to the National Crime Agency, which warned that young men were being targeted with misogynistic material. By Stephen Castle ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. The National Crime Agency (NCA) has named seven most wanted men who might be in London. The NCA is the UK's lead agency against organised ...

Intelligence shows a rise in ‘com networks’ used by ‘young men who are motivated by status, power, control, misogyny, sexual ...

The National Crime Agency has warned of the threats posed by online networks of teenage boys involved in disturbing crimes. Members are mainly teenage boys who are driven by a desire for status ...