‘The gangland figures murdered the hits ordered on EncroChat: How killings of Salford's 'Mr Big' Paul Massey and mob 'fixer' John Kinsella were called in using encrypted phone network’.

‘Marketed as the “world’s most secure handset,” ,’ banks, online shops, even WhatsApp use end-to-end encryption. What most people will see if they try and hack into the system is jumbled up data which is unintelligible. The phones have two modes; normal operating mode and encryption mode. Operation Venetic was described by the NCA as “the biggest and most significant operation of its kind in the UK”. The NCA got into the system and read the messages.

EncroChat unlocked: Gangland Untouchables exposed as police read secret texts of assassins and drug smugglers.