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>South Yorkshire Police were informed by colleagues in Hertfordshire that they had identified an IP address from which more than 100 indecent images of children
by underyx 10y ago
>South Yorkshire Police were informed by colleagues in Hertfordshire that they had identified an IP address from which more than 100 indecent images of children had been shared in April that year. The IP address passed on corresponded to an internet account held by Nigel's partner. But it had been typed incorrectly, with an extra digit added by mistake.
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- xenadu02 10y agoThe story needlessly confuses the issue of the wrong IP address with the fact that his actual internet account was owned by his partner. The two have nothing to do with each other. The real IP the police were after belonged to someone else living in a different house.
- sushid 10y agoI believe he accused them of racism and sexism since he was raided by the police for being a suspected pedophile whereas his white female partner was not even investigated as a potential criminal.
- 9q 10y agoI don't think there is any evidence of it being racist. It juts seems more like incompetence to me. Him being male would probably be more relevant, but it's far more likely for men to commit this crime either way, so it's not reasonable to suspect him more highly.
- MertsA 10y agoHim being black would probably be more relevant, but it's far more likely for black people to commit this crime either way, so it's not reasonable to suspect him more highly. This is why it's wrong to just blindly rely on statistics to tell you who to arrest. Prejudice has no place in law enforcement.
- elastic_church 10y agoregardless it was a swing and a miss in that court system, dismissed oh well Wrong IP address, wrong IP address resolved to the woman's account. Arrested the man who worked with teenagers. WOAH SMOKING GUN RAID ALL THE THINGS