Showing posts with label custody. Show all posts
Showing posts with label custody. Show all posts

Friday, June 24, 2011

'Web attack' teenager in custody

23 June 2011 Last updated at 11:44 GMT Keyboard The teenager has been remanded in police custody for three days A 19-year-old man charged with five computer offences, including attacking the Serious Organised Crime Agency's website, has been remanded in custody.

Ryan Cleary, from Wickford, Essex, did not enter any plea when he appeared at City of Westminster Magistrates' Court.

Mr Cleary was remanded in police custody for three days.

The teenager was arrested at his family home on Monday as part of a Scotland Yard and FBI probe into attacks on a number of websites.

Ben Cooper, defending, told the court: "He has been assisting with police inquiries so far and is keen to continue doing so."

Mr Cleary will be detained at London's Charing Cross police station for further questioning.

The teenager is alleged to have set up a distributed denial of service attack on the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) on 20 June.

A distributed denial of service typically involves flooding a target website with data, in an attempt to overwhelm it so it cannot serve its legitimate users.

He has also been accused of attacking the website of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry in November 2010.

Mr Cleary allegedly attacked the British Phonographic Industry's website in October.

He was charged under the Criminal Law Act and Computer Misuse Act by the Met Police's e-crime unit.

The charges against Mr Cleary include conspiring with other unknown people on or before 20 June to construct a botnet - a collection of hijacked home computers - to conduct distributed denial of service attacks.

He is also charged with making, adapting, supplying or offering to supply a botnet, intending that it should be used to commit, or to assist in the commission of a distributed denial of service attack.

Keyboard The teenager has been remanded in police custody for three days

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Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Woman dies in police custody

3 June 2011 Last updated at 12:10 GMT A 31-year-old woman has died in custody in York, prompting an investigation by the police watchdog.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said the woman, whose name has not yet been released, was detained under the Mental Health Act.

She was taken to Fulford Road police station on Thursday at 1500 BST and found collapsed in her cell at about 1800 BST.

A spokesman for North Yorkshire Police said they were co-operating fully.

The IPCC said the woman had been stopped in the Bootham area of York after concerns were raised with officers about her behaviour.

The watchdog said it would examine the circumstances of the woman's detention, her transportation to the station and the care she received while in custody.

A police spokesman said: "While this independent investigation is ongoing it would not be appropriate for North Yorkshire Police to comment further other than to extend our deepest sympathy to the woman's loved ones at this very difficult time."


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