Scots help kill off kid porn ring

SCOTTISH cops have helped smash an online international paedophile ring in an operation labelled "one of the biggest blows against child pornography in recent years".

- By Richard Elias

It centred on a German-based website called KidFlix which was housed on the dark web and had more than 1.8m users.

Operating in almost 40 countries around the globe, the site was said to have hosted over 6,200 hours of horrific abuse footage.