A LEAK threatened to compromise the National Crime Agency‘s Encrochat probe that went on to snare scores of Scotland’s most ...

Your modern-day top-tier criminal is far from the Great Train Robber figure of yesteryear. Nowadays, they’re tattoo-festooned ...

A new Channel 4 documentary will tell the story inside the investigation - the ECHO explains what EncroChat was ...

A NEW Channel 4 documentary will tell the story of a gripping international investigation into the criminal plans made via a messaging platform. Channel 4 aired the first episode of the ...

The EncroChat phones were equipped with numerous features to help criminals, such as the ability for messages to ‘burn’ ...

A horrifying underworld torture chamber was used by criminals in the Netherlands until a huge discovery explored in a new ...

An officer who took part in a massive operation to hack criminals' encrypted messages has spoken out about the most ‘chilling’ thing he came across. The NCA’s investigation into EncroChat, an ...

The National Crime Agency (NCA) said Thomas Hooton used the messaging service EncroChat to deal drugs worth about £1.3m and ...

A new Channel 4 documentary explores how the infiltration of EncroChat exposed the work of criminals worldwide ...

Hooton pleaded guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to conspiring to supply Class A and B drugs between 26 March and 4 June 2020.

The NCA's search for 'AceProspect' is the subject of the first episode of Channel 4's 'Operation Dark Phone: Murder by Text' ...

Thomas Hooton, son of Merseyside musician Peter, was identified by police through encrypted messages about his famous father ...