In the past two years these disparate hackers, in their teens or early twenties, have coordinated and planned attacks on Discord and Telegram to breach dozens of companies and steal or scramble data to extort their victims.
A man who murdered his daughter-in-law six months after she arrived in the UK has been jailed.Mashal Ilyas, 24, was found unconscious at the bottom of the stairs of the family home at Oxford Road, Atherton, Wigan on 9 October 2024 and died a short time later.
Nadeem Begum, 53, claimed he had been asleep and then found her collapsed but forensic, CCTV and phone evidence contradicted his explanation, with Ms Ilyas' cause of death found to be asphyxiationBegum was found guilty of her murder after a trial at Manchester Crown Court and has been given a life sentence with a minimum term of 18-years in prison.The court heard that Ms Ilyas came to the UK from Pakistan following wedding arrangements made by the two families.
The jury was told about reported tensions between Begum and Ms Ilyas, and his views on her role within the household, which could have been the reason for the attack.A post-mortem examination found several injuries including bruising to the neck which were not consistent with a fall.
Jurors heard CCTV showed that all family members apart from Ms Ilyas and Begum had left the house.
Two spots of Begum's blood were found on Ms Ilyas' clothes and his DNA was recovered under her fingernails.It said that on 30 October, 2023, an individual had tweeted threatening to sue former home secretary Suella Braverman, who had called pro-Palestine protests "hate marches", if she called them an antisemite.
The paper said Mr Foulkes had responded: "One step away from storming Heathrow looking for Jewish arrivals…"Mr Foulkes said he was taking legal action against Kent Police over his alleged treatment.
Speaking on the doorstep of home in Gillingham, Mr Foulkes, who spent a decade as a special constable, said: "It's all very disappointing."It has got to end and that's why someone has to take stand."