BRITISH ARRESTS & CONVICTIONS

Public schoolboy masterminded £12m web fraud - Telegraph

Public schoolboy masterminded £12m web fraud - Telegraph: "Nick Webber and three accomplices admitted running a website which sold stolen credit card details and offered online tutorials in a range of lucrative scams.
The 19-year-old, described as an “extremely sophisticated hacker,” was caught with details of 100,000 credit cards on his laptop and his website has been linked to international scams that plundered around £8m from 65,000 bank accounts.
Stolen account details from the US were made available to GhostMarket.Net's 8,000 customers for £2, while those from the EU were sold for £3 and British details for £4."

Dealer's drug cash confiscated - Peterlee Today

Dealer's drug cash confiscated - Peterlee Today: "Ashley Abbott, 31, is serving two years in prison after being caught dealing crack cocaine on the streets of Hartlepool.

Now almost £1,000 he pocketed from selling the Class A drug is to be seized after a judge ordered it to be confiscated.

A total of £995.65 will be taken by authorities following a successful application by prosecutors under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

Abbott, who served in Iraq, Kosovo and Bosnia with the Army, was locked up in June.

Police had caught him red-handed selling crack cocaine in Lancaster Road, Hartlepool, shortly after leaving his flat.

They watched him conduct a £20 deal with a woman at around midday on December 11 last year."

Three quarters of offenders 'never give up crime' - Glasgow News

Three quarters of offenders 'never give up crime' - Glasgow News: "Three in four offenders do not give up their life of crime, new figures from the Ministry of Justice show.
The report reveals that 74 per cent of criminals who were discharged from custody or started a court order between January and March 2000 were re-convicted within nine years.
More than half of repeat offenders were reconvicted within 12 months of ending their sentence.
Reoffending rates are higher among those serving short-term sentences than among those given community orders.
And 19.2 per cent of adults who were given a caution in 2008 subsequently reoffended."
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