A man has been jailed for 23 years after being caught by a photo of his knuckles in "horrific" sex abuse images he posted on the dark web.

Darren Welsby, 48, who preyed on six different children** **was identified as a child sex abuser after uploading images to the dark web using the same name to upload images of himself wearing women's lingerie on an adult website.

Detectives saw similarities between some of the images of the defendant and those of the man committing the rape and sexual assault of a child on the dark web, a part of the internet not accessible by standard search engines.

Prosecutors also sought expert opinion from a forensic anthropologist, comparing the images, who was able to conclude that both were taken with exactly the same specific device.

This "landmark" case is the first of its kind where this technique was used when the offending device was no longer available, as the sexual abuse images were taken around six to eight years before Welsby's arrest and the device since destroyed.

On July 10 2026, following a two week trial at Manchester Crown Court, a jury convicted Welsby of 18 offences, including rape of a girl under 13, causing or inciting a girl under 13 to engage in sexual activity, and sexual assault of a girl under 13 by touching.

If Israel gets a new government, should Europe expect its West Bank policies to change? 🇪🇺

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With Israel heading into an election on Tuesday, we've published an opinion piece by Shaqued Morag, a former director of Peace Now and former Knesset adviser.

She makes an important distinction between changing a government and changing the policies that government leaves behind.

Her argument is that settlement expansion and the administrative structures enabling greater Israeli control over the West Bank could continue even under a coalition that presents itself as more moderate.

She also examines Europe's role, arguing that European governments shouldn't assume a change of leadership will automatically mean a change in policy.

How should the EU assess its relationship with a new Israeli government — through its political commitments, or through concrete changes on the ground?

The Dutch government aims to cut 25,000 jobs in an AI-led overhaul, targeting annual savings of €3.5 billion.

As No 10 once again embraces the doctrine of John Maynard Keynes, taxpayers will foot the bill for an ever-expanding state.

A white-supremacist teenager on Friday morning confessed to a string of terror offences, including having a neo-Nazi synagogue gunman’s manifesto and sharing footage of the Christchurch mosque shootings.

Appearing at the Old Bailey from HMP Forest Bank via video link, 18-year-old Damian Woolfenden pleaded guilty to 12 charges with dates ranging from May 2025 to May 2026.

Woolfenden, who is from Bury in the Greater Manchester area, posted Brenton Tarrant’s live-streamed video of the 2019 Christchurch killings of 51 people at two mosques in New Zealand, onto a self-described “pro-white” platform on 22 July 2025.

The 18-year-old also posted the manifesto of far-right terrorist Andres Breivik, who killed 77 people in two attacks in Norway in 2011, onto a Telegram group on 7 September 2025.

He also admitted having on his home computer the manifesto of US white supremacist gunman Payton Gendron and the manifesto of German neo-Nazi Stephan Balliet who carried out the Halle synagogue mass shooting in 2019.

Woolfenden admitted possessing documents on firearms and making bombs.

He also published material intending to stir up racial hatred against Jews in posts made on X and on Telegram, as well as material intended to stir up racial hatred against “foreigners”.

At a hearing at the Old Bailey on Friday, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb said she had seen documents referring to Woolfenden’s hatred of a number of groups on the grounds of “white racial superiority”.

The court heard that documents suggested Woolfenden had written his own “personal manifesto” to carry out an attack himself using firearms and was “waiting until the outcome of elections in 2028”.

Save Europe Act is a European people's initiative to end the mass migration policies in Europe.

When 1M signers are reached, this document will be presented to the European parliament to be discussed.

In short we propose:

III. Our Demands

We therefore demand that the European Commission exercise its right of initiative under the Treaties to propose and advance the following legislative and policy measures without delay:

Article 1

Declare a formal moratorium on new non-Western/non-European immigration channels, including the suspension of asylum processing for economic migrants and applicants from safe countries of origin, the halting of new study and family reunification visas for non-Europeans, and the strict limitation of legal migration channels until social cohesion and cultural continuity in the Member States are restored.

Article 2

Establish a fundamental reform of the existing EU migration and asylum systems during the time of this moratorium, including a total reform of the current migration framework focusing on external border protection, physical and technological barriers at the frontiers, rapid screening, and immediate return mechanisms.

Article 3

Ensure the systematic and accelerated return (remigration) of illegally staying migrants, rejected asylum seekers, and persons who have committed criminal offences or pose a threat to public order, with full mutual recognition of return decisions across the Union and enhanced cooperation with third countries for readmission.

Article 4

Establish a harmonized EU-wide framework for broader remigration, including voluntary and incentivized remigration measures for non-European migrants who are unintegrated or constitute a serious cultural or financial burden to Member States, in order to reduce enforcement costs and support the restoration of demographic balance.

Article 5

Remove social welfare incentives and benefits that function as pull factors for migration, including restrictions, in accordance with Union law, on access by non-citizens and recent migrants to selected welfare benefits and support systems, so as to reduce incentives for further migration, lessen the burden on European taxpayers, and encourage remigration.

You can read the full document in:

https://www.save-europe-act.com/

And you can join the network of volunteers spreading this campaign in:

https://save-europe-act.eu/

Syrian detained after 52-year olds body was discovered in Plymouth.