A police officer who worked undercover as a paedophile for 20 years saved at least 50 children in the process.

Working in arguably the world’s darkest job, Ian James encountered a number of ‘very high risk, very dangerous’ predators, of whom he had to protect long enough to have them arrested.

In a 2021 interview on Anything Goes with James English, Ian opened up about joining the force at 18 in London and later in Cleveland.

Ian James worked undercover to hunt down paedophiles (YouTube/Anything Goes with James English)

During his line of work, he was forced to become friendly with predators, regularly looking at illegal and explicit images of children without giving himself away.

Ian said he would ‘hide [his] inner self’ and ‘block everything out’ by performing a type of ‘acting role’.

Revealing one of his worst encounters, the detective spoke about the time he befriended a predator who took him up to his flat with five others.

On arrival he was shown a number of horrifying images, which could later be used for evidence.

Ian told his story to James English on his Anything Goes podcast in 2021 (YouTube/Anything Goes with James English)

However, after a short while they informed him that a 12-year-old boy was heading up to the flat and the paedophiles told Ian that they want him to have sex with the boy.

Ian explained that he had two options at the time.

Number one would be to stall for long enough to get police back-up through the door to make the arrests.

But if that would take too long, Ian would have to reveal to them that he is an undercover officer and try and arrest them himself.

“At the end of the day, I’ve got to hold this boy and I’ve got to protect this boy,” he explained.

“I can’t take back what’s happened to the boy previously, do you know what I mean?

“It’s the here and the now. All I know is that whilst I’m here no one’s going to touch him and that he’s safe.

“But then it’s a cat and mouse game because at some point I’ve got to make a decision because if the police don’t come then I’ve got to come out of role.”

Thankfully, the police backup did arrive and the men were arrested.

Ian saved countless children from further abuse and admitted it became a bit of an ‘obsession’.

He said: “You save one child, and you think ‘do you know what? I can do this because I’ve just done it.’

“The satisfaction that I had became a bit of an obsession because if you save one child, then you want to save another one, then another one.

“Dare I say it – we were probably far more successful in saving children than we were at getting convictions.”

If you’ve been affected by any of these issues and want to speak to someone in confidence regarding the welfare of a child, contact the NSPCC on 0808 800 5000, 10am-8pm Monday to Friday. If you are a child seeking advice and support, call Childline for free on 0800 1111, 24/7.

A healthcare worker who became a porn star has opened up about the awkward way her family found out what she was doing.

Serenity Cox was named Pornhub’s ‘Amateur Model of the Year’ for 2023 after entering the adult industry in her mid-30s.

The woman from Toronto, Canada, has racked up over 500 million views for her steamy content with it all starting when she and her husband wanted ‘to spice things up in the bedroom’.

Now 40 years old, Cox appeared on the Holly Randall Unfiltered podcast to speak about her journey from an emergency room nurse to being one of the biggest amateur creators

Serenity Cox started doing porn in her mid 30s (Instagram/@serenitycox.official)

The star admitted it was ‘a little bit more challenging’ when it came to telling her family rather than her friends.

“They didn’t find out from me, they found out through other sources,” she said.

Cox explained it’s ‘always received a lot better’ when she’s able to talk to someone and they get to hear her side of it.

“But when somebody who doesn’t expect that from me finds it on the internet or through somebody else, especially somebody in my parents’ generation, they create a story of what exactly that is that’s happening that’s not necessarily the real story,” she added.

The 40-year-old has won awards for her content (Instagram/@serenitycox.official)

Cox went on to talk about how it ‘infuriates’ her that people often ‘blame’ her husband.

“Because obviously I’m a woman, I can’t decide to be a sexual being, right?” she slammed. “It must be my husband who’s forcing me to do these things with other men or film it.

“There was a lot of that and I had to challenge a lot of those opinions on what we did.”

She explained how despite her mum and her having ‘always being really close’ they had never really had conversations about sex and that side of their lives.

“So I was forced to,” Cox said. “I laid it all out for her – my poor, mortified mother. But it was so healthy because after that, she was like ‘I get it, I understand’.

“And we’ve had some really interesting conversations and some really healthy and progressive conversations in the last couple of years since then.”

Cox added that she’s ‘really proud’ of how far her mum has come and that she’s ‘cautiously’ said she’s proud of her daughter too.

Having previously ‘balanced’ working in health care and in the adult industry, she’s currently not working as a nurse. But she doesn’t think she’s ‘out of the nursing game for life’.

“I don’t think I will ever go back to full-time shift work again ever in my life, but I will go back to health care in some way,” Cox added.

Warning: This article contains descriptions of child abuse that some people may find disturbing

The foster son of a woman dubbed ‘Britain’s most evil parent’ has told how there is still one thing that he can’t get his head around all these years later.

Christopher Spry’s childhood was dictated by torture, starvation and neglect at the hands of Eunice Spry, who horrifically subjected him and his siblings to brutal daily beatings as well as sadistic punishments.

She took him and his little sister, Alloma, in when he was around three-years-old, as their parents couldn’t look after them as they were grappling with substance abuse.

Christopher explained that Spry was regarded as a ‘bit of a hero’ in the local community and was ‘well regarded’ by residents in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, so he was initially optimistic about being placed into her care.

However, that feeling of hope didn’t last for long – as the abuse survivor previously told LADbible: “It got kind of messed up really quickly.” Take a look at this:

Christopher explained that Spry, a strict Jehovah’s Witness, soon began to start inflicting heinous punishments on him and his siblings as she ‘thought they were sinning all the time’.

“She would be quoting scriptures to try and point out everything we were doing was a sin,” he said.

Spry’s sickening methods of discipline included nearly drowning him in freezing cold water, force-feeding him washing up liquid, being made to eat his own vomit and battering him with various objects.

Some of Christopher’s worst memories include ‘getting hit round the back of the head with an iron bar and blacking out and coming round minutes later’.

Speaking of how he and his siblings coped, he said: “It was like being at war and trying to keep each other going and doing life-saving care. All while still trying to be kids.”

Christopher continued: “Probably within the course of a month, we went from having very basic Jehovah’s Witness-style discipline to torture very quickly. And this torture ranged from being forced to stay up all night, not allowed to sleep.

Christopher bravely opened up about the horrific abuse he suffered as a child in foster care. (YouTube/LADbibleTV)

“Daily beatings and forcing us to tell on each other,” he said. “If one of us fell asleep, we would have to wake Eunice up and she would punish us, or we’d keep a tally and she’d punish us the next morning.

“Or walking up and down stairs for hours on end. Kind of messed-up stuff.”

Despite all of the harrowing mental scars Christopher has to this day, there is one aspect of Spry’s abuse which he still just cannot comprehend – her forcing him and the other children to watch a man die.

After hauling all of the kids out of school when teachers started to raise alarm bells about their condition, the monster mother moved to a farmhouse – which later became known as ‘the torture house’ – with them in 1996.

Christopher told LADbible: “An old guy called John Drake owned it, and Eunice befriended him and decided to move us all in so she could take care of him. Eunice had never met this bloke before, but I think she saw gold signs.

“He was in very bad health, was having to go on oxygen, etc. And he died semi-suspiciously, because he’d been in bad health… but he’d somehow turned his oxygen off in the evening so he didn’t get oxygen while he was sleeping.

He was tortured, starved and neglected alongside his siblings. (YouTube/LADbibleTV)

“And I think everyone around him found that a bit weird, to be honest’.

“Eunice had decided that we should all go visit John’s body, so we all paraded around John, who was just laid there dead,” Christopher recalled. ” To be shown that at six-years-old is, it’s horrible.

“She liked to see us scared, that was evident. So I think she must have got something out of that, because yeah, why would you parade children around a dead body She must have got something out of it.

“It’s just weird that his will changed a couple of days before he died and left everything to Charlotte. So suddenly Eunice is in charge of this farmhouse, she’s Charlotte’s mum, and all the land and all the money that went with it.

“It’s just a bit weird, in my book.”

During an appearance on The Dozen with Liam Tuffs podcast earlier this week, Christopher reiterated his suspicions as well as his inability to get his head around why someone would do such a thing.

He told the host: “I’ve got a list of 10 things that I still don’t understand – the rest I can kind of see there’s a there half a reason – but this is one of them. We were made to watch this old man have his last breaths.

Eunice Spry served just over seven years behind bars. (YouTube/LADbibleTV)

“He was in the sun-room and Eunice had us all come in and by the time we’d actually got there he had just died.

“We were just made to watch him for about 20 to 25 minutes – just watch this old dead man… We’re talking minutes. He might have still even been technically alive at that point.”

Heartbreakingly, Christopher said he remembered enjoying John’s funeral as there was food available for him to eat.

When Spry’s horror crimes were finally uncovered, she was convicted of 26 charges of child abuse against children in her care and was sentenced to 14 years in prison – with the judge saying it was the ‘worst case in his 40 years practising law’.

A year later in September 2008, the High Court reduced her sentence to 12 years.

Ultimately, she was released from prison in June 2014 after serving just over seven years of her sentence.

If you’ve been affected by any of these issues and want to speak to someone in confidence regarding the welfare of a child, contact the NSPCC on 0808 800 5000, 10am-8pm Monday to Friday. If you are a child seeking advice and support, call Childline for free on 0800 1111, 24/7.