Overview
- Slate, 36, was sentenced Friday to six years in prison and given a ten-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
- He served as a global moderator on Olympus and held senior roles on several other dark‑web forums used to share child abuse material.
- After an intelligence tip in March 2025, officers arrested him and seized three devices that held nearly 87,000 illegal images, including more than 15,200 in Category A, the most severe grade.
- The NCA said he also financed and co‑created an image‑hosting tool that let users upload and keep child abuse images online.
- He pleaded guilty to multiple counts of making, distributing and possessing indecent images and arranging or facilitating exploitation, while prosecutors asked the court to leave some organised‑crime charges on file.