An evil paedophile recorded himself abusing small children before sharing the horrific images and videos with other people online. Martyn Armstrong, from Pembrokeshire, raped and sexually assaulted two very young children and took indecent images of another child before sending evidence of his crimes to someone he met on the dark web.
The videos and images were then distributed around the world via the internet with files later recovered by authorities in Australia. He was caught after officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA) used specialist software to reverse the images of him abusing the victims that he had shared.
While he had attempted to obscure his own identity, the tool - used by the NCA for the first time - allowed officers to 'unblur' distorted photos and access metadata in the images which led to him being identified. The 50-year-old was stopped and arrested by South Wales Police officers while driving on the M4 on July 30, 2022, following a request by the NCA.
