'Did weak wi-fi password lead the police to our door?'
23 May 2021
"They took everything: our desktop computer, both our laptops, our mobile phones, a laptop I had borrowed, even old mobile phones that were lying around in drawers," said Kate.
Their children, aged five and seven, were allowed to keep their tablets.
The police later told the couple that four photos depicting category B child abuse - the second-most-serious kind - had been uploaded to an online chat site a year ago.
Information passed to the National Crime Agency suggested it had come from their IP address.