Inside the Repulsive World of 'Hurtcore', the Worst Crimes Imaginable

Inside the Repulsive World of 'Hurtcore', the Worst Crimes Imaginable

Liezy margallo, girlfriend and culprit of peter scully, Australian paedophile and murderer, and my personal nominatee for most evil person ever. Left a rest photo. Right screenshot from one my torture videos " the couple created. Their most infamous video is " Daisy's Destruction 

JUST about anything evil can be bought on the dark web, as Eileen Ormsby found researching her new book The Darkest Web. This new extract details the capture of Australian pedophile Peter Scully and child porn promoter Matthew Graham

Torment and humiliation used to be a very public spectacle. But in the modern world there are new ways to be cruel, and many of them are conducted from behind a computer screen.

It started for "Victim 5" in 2013, when she placed an advert on Gumtree saying she was looking to buy a pet dog. One of the emails the 15-year-old schoolgirl received was strange. It was from Liz, an artist, who promised to pay for any dog she chose. In return, Liz wanted the girl to email her a topless selfie as inspiration for a charcoal drawing.

They got chatting over email. The girl confided to Liz that she lived in foster care, was being bullied by other girls and had a young disabled brother who "meant the world" to her. She found a dog costing £275, and Liz told her she would buy it for her in exchange for a photo that "absolutely nobody besides myself would ever see". The girl emailed over a photo. As soon as she did, Liz turned nasty.

The girl was told that if she did not send more photos immediately, the one she had sent would be emailed to her bullies. The trap quickly tightened: the more photos Victim 5 sent to Liz, the more she was blackmailed and the more explicit Liz's demands got. "I will do everything I can to make your life awful," Liz told her. She threatened to mail photos to everyone in her street and school. She would speak to social services and get her disabled brother taken away and put in a home, unless the girl photographed herself in a series of degrading naked poses, holding up signs bearing messages such as "I am a slut" and "I look after my disabled brother, and now I am being forced to strip". The girl told Liz she wanted to kill herself, but Liz continued demanding photos. The girl ended up in hospital after overdosing.

At the same time, Liz was blackmailing others: a schoolgirl was coerced into sending videos of herself eating dog food while naked on the floor, licking a soiled toilet brush and a used tampon, alongside photos of herself with her legs apart, exposing her genitals, and holding up a hand-written sign with the words "I hate niggers".

But Liz wasn't a teenage girl; she was Matthew Falder, a middle-class Cambridge graduate in his mid-twenties living a double life. When he wasn't researching geophysics, out with university friends or with his long-term girlfriend, 29-year-old Falder was using encrypted email addresses to blackmail vulnerable people into taking photos and videos of themselves performing humiliating acts, which he then circulated around the darkest corners of the internet.

According to prosecutors, Falder – who grew up in a well-off part of Cheshire – treated his victims "both as sex objects and as objects of derision". On the dark web, his particular preference was for seeing children in positions of degradation and pain. On one extreme porn forum, in a thread titled "100 things we want to see at least once", he suggested "a young girl being used as a dartboard", a video depicting a child's bones being "slowly and deliberately broken" and the abuse of "a paralysed child".

Today, Falder – who joked with detectives when they arrested him, in June of 2017, that the charges against him sounded "like the rap sheet from hell" – was sentenced to 32 years in jail at Birmingham Crown Court. He admitted over 100 offences between 2009 and 2017, covering a host of sadistic online crimes against 48 people aged from their early teens to their thirties.

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