Overview

• York Crown Court sentenced Stephen Woodward to three years and one month in prison and handed his brother Christopher a 15-month term suspended for 12 months with 240 hours of unpaid work.
• Investigators secured an all-assets restraint order freezing £1.1 million held across 15 bank accounts and 21 cryptocurrency wallets, along with an extra £144,121 in cash.
• Confiscation proceedings are set to recover designer jewellery, holiday expenses and a £91,000 Jaguar F-Type bought with illicit proceeds.
• Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit and partner agencies dismantled IPTV Hosting, Helix Hosting and Black and White TV after they streamed thousands of unauthorised channels.
• Authorities plan to seek a Serious Crime Prevention Order to bar the brothers from reoffending in organised digital piracy.