The agency is concerned about the "egregious harms and the growing caseload we are seeing from this threat".

Sadistic online groups are recruiting teenagers in Britain, according to the National Crime Agency, which warned that young ...

Threat from teenage boys in ‘sadistic’ online groups surges sixfold, National Crime Agency warns - Intelligence shows a rise ...

Harrowing crimes have increased six-fold between 2022 and 2024, and include child abuse and the sharing of extreme material ...

Reports have surged in the last three years of gangs of boys sharing extreme violence pictures and misogynistic online ...

A driver has been charged with immigration offences after a six-year-old child and a woman were found hidden in a lorry.

Chinese offenders are linked to cyber, drugs, fraud, modern slavery and human trafficking crimes, while other nations, ...

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 ...

Fraud is the most prevalent crime in the UK, according to the National Crime Agency, and can cause victims long-lasting emotional and psychological harm as well as devastating financial losses.

The National Crime Agency says boys as young as 14 are targeted into sextortion over social media platforms like Snapchat and ...