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Policing of internet

The life sentences handed down to Neil Strachan and James Rennie, the leaders of the largest paedophile ring uncovered in Scotland, reflects not only their appalling sexual abuse of very young children, but the fact that images of their abuse were distributed across an international network of around 200 others.

It is the satisfactory finale to the biggest police investigation of its kind in Scotland, which had already resulted in jail sentences for six other members of the ring.