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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Duncan Campbell

Encrypted messaging system used to procure gun for murder, court hears

The Old Bailey
Paul Fontaine is also alleged to have conspired with Frankie Sinclair to murder a rival of Sinclair’s, the Old Bailey has heard. Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian

A sophisticated encrypted phone messaging system was used to supply a firearm for a murder and to hatch a failed plot to carry out another killing, an Old Bailey jury has been told at the trial of two men whose secret communications were intercepted.

The so-called EncroChat service was allegedly used to procure a firearm to carry out a murder in London in 2020 and to plan another that did not take place.

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