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The head of an organised crime group that smuggled hundreds of people both into and out of the UK has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years.

National Crime Agency officers have charged a man with people smuggling offences as part of an international investigation into an organised crime network moving migrants across the Mediterranean from North Africa into Europe.

A psychiatrist from London who helped run a dark web site dedicated to the sexual abuse of children has been jailed for six years.

A lorry driver who tried to smuggle hundreds of kilos of cocaine into the UK on behalf of an organised crime group has been jailed for 13-and-a-half years.

A man from East Sussex who travelled to Nepal and the Philippines to sexually abuse children, and coached others online how to groom victims, has been jailed for 21 years imprisonment and seven years extended licence period.

One of the UK’s most wanted fugitives has been returned to the UK to stand trial over the murder of an Essex man.

A former deputy head teacher of a primary school has pleaded guilty to paying and instructing teenagers in India to abuse younger children.

Three alleged members of an Albanian organised crime group bringing migrants to the UK in small boats and HGVs have been arrested following a National Crime Agency operation.

A major National Crime Agency operation against a suspected organised crime group that imported around 1.6 tonnes of cocaine into the UK has resulted in two arrests.

A Devon man who set up an online forum for sharing indecent images of children has been sentenced to three years in jail.

A 34-year-old man from the Netherlands has appeared in court in the UK to face charges over the attempted importation of an AK47-style automatic rifle and handgun.

A man wanted by the National Crime Agency for trafficking weapons and ammunition has been sent back to prison and charged with drugs offences after he was arrested in Spain.

A seaside holiday home in County Down believed to have been purchased with the proceeds of fraud and money laundering offences has been frozen as part of an ongoing National Crime Agency civil recovery investigation.

Two men wanted by the National Crime Agency on suspicion of firearms offences have been arrested in Spain.

An organised crime boss who had been on the run since 2018 has begun an 11 year prison sentence after being extradited to the UK from Thailand.