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Police Lack Resources For Paedophile Hunts
News British paedophile units admit they do not have the resources and expertise to pull off further investigations like Operation Cathedral. Operation Cathedral was the largest ever international porn raid and followed months of surveillance of the...
[February 15, 2001, 9:02]
Seven Britons Guilty Over Child Porn Ring
News Raids in 1998 under the codename Operation Cathedral succesfully seized nearly a million child porn images as well as around 1,800 "computerised videos" depicting children suffering sexual abuse. Peter Sommer, a researcher at the London School of...
[January 10, 2001, 15:59]
Encryption Foils Internet Child Porn Prosecutions
News In the 14 countries that were invited to participate in Operation Cathedral -- the international police investigation into the Wonderland Club -- many prosecutions failed because police computer experts were unable to crack the encryption codes...
[August 3, 2001, 14:10]
International Child Porn Operation Smashed
News The raid follows the success of Operation Cathedral, the largest ever Internet raid, culminating in over 100 arrests word-wide and the seizure of close to a million pornographic images of children. An NCIS spokesman said of the raid: "This is not...
[March 22, 1999, 12:09]
Massive Paedophile Operation Leads To Arrests
News Those arrests came as part of Operation Cathedral, a massive international police operation involving 12 countries. Thirteen suspected paedophiles were arrested and 27 computers seized in police dawn raids Wednesday in the UK's largest ever police...
[January 17, 2001, 13:28]
Wonderland Club Paedophiles To Be Sentenced
News The seven were among 107 arrested in 1998 following a covert international raid, dubbed Operation Cathedral, involving 12 countries. Detective superintendent Peter Spindler, of the National Crime Squad, said the convictions marked the end of the...
[February 12, 2001, 6:06]
Police Disorganisation Blamed For Rise In Net Crime
News The police chief explained that international crackdowns on Internet pornography such as Operation Cathedral in 1998 are often coordinated badly due to a lack of organisation and planning across the countries involved.
[January 18, 2001, 15:11]
Police Crack Down On Net Child Pornographers
News Last year Operation Cathedral resulted in seven arrests in the UK and the seizure of around 100,000 illegal images. A 43-year-old man from Watford, an 18-year-old man from Wales and a 33-year-old man from West Yorkshire were among those arrested as...
[December 10, 1999, 12:49]
Commercial Child Porn Ring Bust Leads To 100 Arrests
News Sommer acted as an expert defence witness at the Operation Cathedral trial in January, and explains that Wonderland was more typical, an elite group of people who used the Internet to swap images of children among themselves.
[August 9, 2001, 13:00]
Police Use Face-mapping Tools To Identify Abuse Victims
News The IT company Serco was commissioned to develop the face-recognition software for NCS following Operation Cathedral -- an international operation that led to the arrest and imprisonment of the world's largest Internet paedophile ring, the...
[November 28, 2001, 14:12]
Huge Raid On Alleged Net Paedophiles
News On 2 September 1998 an international police operation dubbed Operation Cathedral involving 12 countries successfully seized nearly a million child porn images as well as 1,800 "computerised videos" depicting children suffering sexual abuse.
[March 27, 2001, 10:50]
Fourteen Arrested After Internet Child Porn Investigation
News Back in 1998, police forces in 12 different countries worked together in Operation Cathedral, which broke the notorious paedophile ring known as the Wonderland Club. The operation, which was code-named "Barcela", followed a seven-month...
[October 30, 2001, 15:22]
Wonderland Used Encryption To Swap Child Abuse Pictures
News This secret network of paedophiles was infiltrated by the National Crime Squad on 2 September 1998 as part of the world's largest ever international pornography raid codenamed Operation Cathedral. Seven British arrests followed a year later, with...
[February 13, 2001, 9:32]
Eighty People Caught In Net Paedophile Ring
News On 2 September 1998 an international police operation dubbed Operation Cathedral, involving 12 countries, successfully seized nearly a million child porn images as well as 1,800 "computerised videos" depicting children suffering sexual abuse.
[April 23, 2001, 16:35]
The Net: Home To Paedophile Rings - Stewardson
News He headed up the UK arm of Operation Cathedral -- the international investigation into the largest ever Internet paedophile ring. Stewardson should know better than anyone. Dubbed the Wonderland Club, the ring is believed to have had 180 members...
[March 22, 1999, 10:50]
News Roundup: Government Gets Taste For Tech
News Thu, 15 Feb Operation Cathedral has successfully trapped paedophiles across the globe but it may not happen again The UK government loves hyping up its plans to turn the country into the most wired country in the G7, but does it really know what it...
[February 20, 2001, 16:42]
Internet Child Pornographer Gets 35 Years
News One hundred eighty men were arrested worldwide on 2 September 1998 after a massive international police raid, codenamed Operation Cathedral. An Internet paedophile was sentenced Thursday to 35 years in jail for the live broadcast of pornographic...
[January 19, 2001, 10:51]
Former Wonderland Club Member Jailed Again
News In 1998 Baldock was sentenced to jail for two and a half years when police investigated him in Operation Cathedral -- a National Crime Squad investigation into the Wonderland Club. A previously convicted paedophile who was linked to the Internet...
[November 1, 2004, 14:44]
Broadband Will Impede Cybercops
News Peter Sommer, research fellow at the London School of Economics, who acted as an expert defence witness at the Operation Cathedral trial in January, is concerned that law enforcement requests for an amendment to the existing directive are...
[March 13, 2001, 15:35]
Exclusive: Government Will Not Prioritise Paedophile Cases
News Sommer acted as an expert defence witness at the Operation Cathedral trial in January, but argues that there are more important things the cybersquad could be doing. Promises that Internet paedophiles would be dealt with as a "top priority" by the...
[February 12, 2001, 11:52]
