UK Policing News

A civil servant who was arrested for online child sexual abuse offences twice went on to commit more offences while on bail. Press officer Richard Arcari, 37, was arrested and bailed in February 2017 by Metropolitan Police officers who received intelligence he had watched an online video of a man raping a boy and had offered to swap videos with other offenders. When he was arrested his iPad was seized and it contained hundreds of child abuse videos and images. On 7 March 2018 National Crime Agency officers investigating an online conferencing room where child abuse was streamed arrested Arcari, who used the identity ‘FitPrvUK’. Arcari, of Kings Avenue, Clapham, had …

Letting someone use your bank account to move money is money laundering is the message to students in the weeks before Christmas when it might seem an easy way to earn money. Earlier this year, 95 bank accounts – containing more than £3 million – were frozen by UK law enforcement coordinated by the National Economic Crime Centre. Access to the money was denied and investigations undertaken because it was suspected that some or all of the funds were linked to money laundering. To date approximately £1 million of this money has been forfeited following court hearings. The majority of the accounts frozen belonged to international students studying in the UK. Further inve…

Ex-professional Pakistani cricketer, Nasir Jamshaid, has admitted bribing cricketers to fix elements of international matches. Ex-professional Pakistani cricketer, Nasir Jamshaid, has admitted bribing cricketers to fix elements of international matches following a covert investigation by the National Crime Agency. Today at Manchester Crown Court, Jamshaid, 32, who was living in Oldbury in the West Midlands, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery. He joins British nationals Yousaf Anwar, 35, from Hayes in West London, and Mohammad Ijaz, 33, from Sheffield, who also admitted their roles in the conspiracy on 2 December 2019. Using an undercover officer, NCA inv…

An Essex man has been sentenced to seven years in prison after being arrested in possession of three functioning handguns and dozens of rounds of live ammunition. An Essex man has been sentenced to seven years in prison after being arrested in possession of three functioning handguns and dozens of rounds of live ammunition. Darren Sexton, 42, From Westcliff-on-Sea, was stopped at the wheel of his van by officers from the National Crime Agency’s Armed Operations Unit on the morning of 6 June 2019. He had earlier been watched by investigators as he carried a Lonsdale-branded cabin bag from the vehicle into a house on West Road. The bag was found in the loft of the add…

A British woman who was paid £2,285 to stream footage of herself sexually abusing a young girl for almost three years has been sentenced to six years behind bars. Christine Callaghan, 33, used Skype to send fellow child sex offender Dean Petley, 30, the harrowing abuse footage. Last month Callaghan, of Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, admitted distributing category A (the most serious) live streamed videos, distributing a category B indecent live streamed video; and two counts of causing or inciting a girl under 13 to engage in sexual activity. Yesterday afternoon, at Isleworth Crown Court she was jailed for six years, given a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and put on the …

A hacker from Essex who was jailed for more than six years following a National Crime Agency investigation has been ordered to pay back over £270,000. 25-year-old computer science student, Zain Qaiser, was sentenced in April 2019 after admitting being part of a Russian-speaking cyber crime group that made massive profits from victims in more than 20 countries. Qaiser spent the proceeds of his criminality on stays in high-end hotels, prostitutes, gambling, drugs and luxury items including a £5,000 Rolex watch. At a confiscation hearing in Kingston Crown Court last week, Qaiser was ordered to hand over £270,864.47 based on an assessment of his available assets. He must…

A former Ministry of Defence police officer who boasted about shooting a man stole money collected for a colleague, a misconduct panel heard. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-essex-50662397

The official report into the police shooting of a man whose death sparked the 2011 riots is facing a new challenge from human rights investigators who say a virtual model of the shooting shows its main conclusion is wrong https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/dec/05/mark-duggan-shooting-report-challenged-by-human-rights-groups

Two members of an organised crime group have been jailed for conspiring to distribute 182.5kg of drugs – despite no drugs ever being found. The National Crime Agency case against Brian Capon, 34, and Michael Downes 32, was so strong the pair pleaded guilty to conspiring to supply 58.5 kg of cocaine, 69kg of cannabis and 55kg of cannabis resin. The NCA investigation into the pair began in August 2017 and was finished just two months later when the Crown Prosecution Service was satisfied that the evidence against the men was overwhelming. During property searches NCA officers found cash, cash counting machines and lists detailing drugs deals and money made fr…

Settlement includes a UK property valued at approximately £50 million. The National Crime Agency has agreed a settlement figure with a family that owns large property developments in Pakistan and elsewhere. The £190 million settlement is the result of an investigation by the NCA into Malik Riaz Hussain, a Pakistani national, whose business is one of the biggest private sector employers in Pakistan. In August 2019 eight account freezing orders were secured at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in connection with funds totalling around £120 million. These followed an earlier freezing order in December 2018 linked to the same investigation for £20 million. All of the accou…

The National Crime Agency has agreed a settlement figure with a family that owns large property developments in Pakistan and elsewhere. The £190 million settlement is the result of an investigation by the NCA into Malik Riaz Hussain, a Pakistani national, whose business is one of the biggest private sector employers in Pakistan. In August 2019 eight account freezing orders were secured at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in connection with funds totalling around £120 million. These followed an earlier freezing order in December 2018 linked to the same investigation for £20 million. All of the account freezing orders relate to money held in UK bank accounts. The NCA has…

Loughton school crash: Man arrested after fatal collision 3 December 2019 A man wanted in connection with a hit-and-run crash in which a 12-year-old boy died has been arrested, police say. The 51-year-old was detained on suspicion of murder and attempted murder after the car crash outside a school in Lo…

Debden Park High School: Boy, 12, dead and five hurt in hit-and-run crash 2 December 2019 Image caption A murder investigation has been launched following the fatal crash near Debden Park High School …

Counterfeit clothing seized by police was allegedly worn by cops working covertly to blend in. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/knock-clothing-seized-police-allegedly-17327303.amp

29 November 2019 London Bridge has been cordoned off by police, with a BBC journalist reporting hearing gunfire. BBC reporter John McManus said he saw a group of men involved in a fight on the bridge. Police then arrived and shots were fired, he said. The Met Police confirmed that it was dealing with an incident at London Bridge and advised people near the scene to follow directions from officers…