In March 2023, specialist Met officers received information about Arif Azad, now 21, of Newham. Their investigation established that Azad had accessed nearly 6,000 indecent images of children online – 3,500 of which were identified as being in the most extreme category.
Officers also established that a number of the images in Azad’s possession had been sent to him by an unknown child with whom he had been communicating online.
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