A RETAIL manager from Malvern has been arrested in a police operation to smash an international paedophile ring.
The 36-year-old man, who has not been named, is thought to be a member of a group known as The Brotherhood.
He has been arrested in connection with the distribution and making of indecent images of children.
Twenty-one members of the group were arrested in five countries yesterday (Thursday), in an operation led by the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit based in London.
The leaders of the ring held annual board meetings known as the Teddy Bear's Picnic at a farmhouse in the United States.
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