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cruse associates news, Police warn of dangers of digital technology after teens arrested for distributing explicit photograph Victoria Police are warning parents and children about the dangers of sexting after four teenagers were arrested for distributing an explicit image at a school in Melbourne's western suburbs. Police say two students and two former students allegedly sent the image of a female student to friends and fellow students. The victim believed the image no longer existed when it was brought to her attention in May. Three 17-year-old boys and a 16-year-old girl were arrested and interviewed last month for knowingly communicating a private activity. No charges have yet been laid and the teens have been released. As a result of the investigation, police have uncovered two more incidents involving explicit photograph sharing involving 14-year-olds. Police expect to make more arrests in those cases. Detective Senior Constable Steve Oakley says one of the girls involved was shocked her image resurfaced a year after it was taken. "I don't think there was that foresight as to where the image could end up," he said. "They're also using applications where you can send a file or an image between two parties and they were under the impression the image would disappear after a certain amount of time, which isn't the case." He says young people who text their image or sexual references do not consider the longer-term consequences when that image is outside their control. "It is important to talk to your child about the appropriate use of technology," he said. "It's really about creating an environment where you and your child feel safe and secure using electronic devices connected to the internet." Read More: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-03/teens-arrested-for-distributing-explicit-picture/4796128

A major Scotland Yard investigation has ended in failure after three men were acquitted of charges over the 1987 murder of a private investigator who was found with an axe embedded in his head in a pub car park. The family of Daniel Morgan immediately called for a judicial inquiry, saying: "The criminal justice system is not fit for purpose." They are bewildered by the fact that the case never reached a jury and that it collapsed after 18 months of legal argument during which the police were in effect on trial, accused by defence lawyers of failing to disclose potentially relevant material. No one has been brought to justice despite five police inquiries and three years of legal hearings, unofficially estimated to have cost around £30m. The first investigation into Morgan's murder, immediately after his killing, is feared to have seen the real killers shielded from justice by police corruption. The Met has privately admitted that corruption in the late 1980s aided the killers in avoiding justice. Senior officers vowed to right the wrongs of the past, but it is unlikely that Morgan's family will see the police, courts or judges deliver justice. At the Old Bailey on Friday - a day after the 24th anniversary of his killing - the Crown Prosecution Service formally dropped the case against Morgan's former business partner Jonathan Rees and brothers Garry and Glenn Vian, who had all been charged with murder. A fourth man, Jimmy Cook, was cleared of murder at an earlier hearing. Sid Fillery, a former police detective from Catford, was cleared of attempting to pervert the course of justice at an earlier hearing. Fillery had moonlighted at Southern Investigations, the private detective firm in which Morgan was a partner. The CPS is believed to have concluded that it could not provide sufficient guarantees to the court that every document held by police over the course of 24 years of investigations which the defence might want to study had been ha