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TV fraud gang jailed for illegally streaming Premier League games

May 30, 2023 World Justice News 0

Five men who illegally streamed Premier League football matches to tens of thousands of people have been jailed. The gang sold cut-price £10-a-month subscriptions, bragging they made money showing games not otherwise available to watch […]

Watching Pirate Streams in the UK is Illegal: Risk of Prosecution “Minimal”

January 29, 2023 World Justice News 0

This month millions of people read that two UK men had been sentenced to 16 months in prison “for watching unauthorized streams.” Since the actual risk of prosecution was never explained, today we’ll reveal the […]

Premier League Celebrates “Success” as IPTV Pirate Walks Out of Court

November 3, 2022 World Justice News 0

The owner of pirate IPTV service Marvel Streams UK appeared in court this week expecting to go to prison, but after being handed a suspended sentence, he walked away. While police, the Premier League, and […]

Pirate IPTV Pair Sentenced to 45 Months in Prison For Defrauding Sky & BT Sport

October 27, 2022 World Justice News 0

Following an investigation by Kent Trading Standards, two men who sold illicit access to live sports, movies, and TV shows, have been ordered to serve a total of 45 months in prison. The pair reportedly […]

IPTV Pirate Must Pay £963K or 88 Month Prison Sentence Becomes 168 Months

June 7, 2022 World Justice News 0

In 2019, three men from the UK received prison sentences totaling more than 17 years for selling illegal access to the Premier League’s matches. Scheme ‘mastermind’ Steven King was sentenced to seven years and four […]

Man Who Sold Pirate IPTV Must Pay £521,000 or Face Five More Years in Prison

March 1, 2020 World Justice News 0

A man who was sentenced in 2018 to 4.5 years in prison for selling pirate IPTV devices to pubs and clubs has been ordered to pay £520,000 to the public purse. Failure to come up […]

IPTV Piracy Ring Shut Down – Eight Arrested

April 9, 2017 World Justice News 0

Police in Spain have shut down a large IPTV piracy operation with help from Europol and Bulgarian authorities. The group was operating through two legitimate ISPs in Spain and Bulgaria, which were allegedly set up […]

Football sex abuse scandal: Top clubs ‘made secret payments to keep victims quiet’

November 26, 2016 WJN Administrator 0

Robert Mendick, chief reporter Ben Rumsby Top football clubs made secret payments to buy the silence of young players sexually abused by coaches, The Telegraph can disclose, as the growing scandal threatened to engulf the […]

Canada

Canadian ‘online poison seller’ Kenneth Law to have ‘murder charges dropped in plea deal’

April 19, 2026 0

A Canadian chef accused of supplying deadly substances to people around the world who have taken their own lives will have murder charges dropped as part of a plea deal, his lawyer has said. Kenneth […]

Australia

Australia’s most-decorated living soldier charged over alleged war crimes

April 7, 2026 0

Australia’s most-decorated living soldier has been charged over allegations he committed war crimes in Afghanistan. Ben Roberts-Smith – who left the defence force in 2013 – was arrested at Sydney airport on Tuesday and will […]

Human Rights

‘The gravest crime against humanity’: What does the UN vote on slavery mean?

March 28, 2026 0

The United Nations General Assembly this week overwhelmingly backed a resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade “the gravest crime against humanity”. Welcoming the vote, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the wealth of many Western […]