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Online Communications Prosecutions 2024

Prosecutions and sentencing for harmful online communications in 2024, including the number of immediate custodial sentences and the context of high-profile cases.

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Jan 11, 2026
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How many arrests under section 127 and the Malicious Communications Act resulted in convictions in 2024?

Available public reporting and police FOI work does not produce a single, centrally published figure for convictions in 2024 arising from arrests under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and s...

Jan 7, 2026

How many UK convictions for online posts resulted in prison sentences in 2024?

Available reporting indicates that prosecutions for harmful online communications were a fraction of the social-media policing headlines in 2024, and that a relatively small number of those prosecutio...