Fifty held in global paedophile raids
Dozens of suspected paedophiles, including six in the UK, were held in synchronised raids today in a worldwide operation.
Officers from the National Hi-tech Crime Unit worked for a year to smash an Internet-based child abuse ring which called itself the Shadowz Brotherhood.
Hundreds of officers swooped on homes this morning in six countries, seizing dozens of computers.
Even hardened detectives described the images and videos involved as the most horrific they had
ever seen.
Many involved babies being raped and young children tortured.
Officers involved in sifting through hundreds of thousands of images from the investigation will have compulsory counselling.
Around 50 suspects were held in today's operation.
The six men arrested in the UK included one of the alleged masterminds of the Brotherhood, a 25-year-old man from Staines, west London.
The others were a 58-year-old man who runs an electronic security company in Northamptonshire, a 62-year-old who works for an NHS trust in Berkshire, a 23-year-old cleaner from Wiltshire, a 26-year-old electrician from south east London and a 27-year-old manager in the jewellery trade from Hounslow, west London.
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