Sunday People

OF DRUGS TOP HAVEN FOR PAEDOS

WHAT IS DARK WEB?

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these kids to make really easy money but they’re so young that they fall to temptation and start using the drugs more and more themselves.

“If ever one gets caught, another steps into his place with an existing customer base set up, ripe for picking.”

Professor Adam Winstock, consultant psychiatri­st at University College London and founder of the Global Drug Survey said there was “no reason why this exponentia­l rise won’t continue” as long as parents are uneducated to the risks.

He said: “The risk of being arrested, buying sub-quality drugs and violence is all largely eradicated with the dark web. THE dark web is an internet service similar to the world wide web.

Anybody can visit it but users need special software – which also allows them to remain untraceabl­e.

That makes it popular with criminals selling drugs, arms and porn.

But it is also used by whistleblo­wers and political dissidents to speak out or spill secrets without fear of reprisal from repressive regimes around the world. CRIMINALS offer a chilling array of services on the dark web.

Most sites are aimed at drug addicts and dealers but paedophile­s use it most, say researcher­s.

The vast majority of traffic is driven by sites featuring child sex abuse, according to Portsmouth University. They are visited five times more than any other type of content in the study.

You can also order assassinat­ions Accessing better quality drugs more easily can lead to dependence, with significan­t implicatio­ns for all of us.

“While the internet has always posed a challenge to parents wanting g to p protect their children from inappropri­ate propriate content, the dark web makes kes that almost impossible.”

Our shocking revelation­s ns come as the Global Drug g Survey shows more users are buying their drugs on the dark net in the UK than almost anywhere else in the e world, with only Norway and nd Finland ranking higher.

The poll of almost 120,000 0,000 people in over 50 countries s found that in 2016 alone the number of drug users buying through this method increased from 18 to over 25 per cent.

In two years to May 2016, it had more and computer hackings or buy passports, cloned credit cards, counterfei­t money, handguns and ammunition.

On one site, having someone shot dead costs the Bitcoin equivalent of £11,185. An acid attack is £3,000, rape £1,500 while a “scare” comes in at just £750. The site asks for 50 per cent of the fee to be deposited upfront in a Bitcoin wallet. than doubled. Jamie Bartlett, author of The Dark Net and director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at think tank Demos, added: “Young children having g easy, y almost instant access to hard drugs is a disaster. “Th “The UK police force occasion sionally makes a high-profile ar arrest linked to the dark web b but there’s almost no way they can find the many thousands of smaller deals h happening every day.” When contacted for data o on drug offences linked to th the dark web, the Crown Pro Prosecutio­n Service, Home Office Office, Nat National Crime Agency and Ministry of Justice all told the Sunday People that this data has not been collected because it is such a new crime.

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