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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

When French and Dutch experts cracked the code for the EncroChat network, Britain’s National Crime Agency launched Operation ...

THE drug dealer son of an iconic 1990s singer has been jailed after being identified in texts linked to his dad. Thomas ...