A man from North London pleaded guilty to charges related to encouraging other members of an online forum to sexually assault drugged victims, London’s Metropolitan Police announced on Friday.
Police discovered the forum in October 2025 and established a national coordination group, led by the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), to investigate the matter.
The investigation led authorities to 52-year-old Darren Conway of Enfield, whom officers had identified as one of the group chat members.
On July 30, police executed a search warrant on Conway’s home, where they seized his digital devices and arrested him.
Messages on his devices revealed that Conway had urged other forum members to engage in sexual assault against drugged or sleeping women, later encouraging the perpetrators to share images in the chat, according to Met Police.
