Liam Lyburd - Buying Guns Online - Exclusive Details
Just how does a teenager in Newcastle go about plotting and almost carrying out mass murder The Liam Lyburd trial ended yesterday with the 19 year old guilty on weapons and of intent to endanger life charges. Our reporter Micky Welch has spent time using the Dark Web.
How easy? Well, worryingly very.
Only a few know about the Dark Web, but it IS accessible on ANY comupter - as long as you've installed the right software.
Once on there it really can be the eBay of crime.
A gun for £500, cocaine, heroine, legal highs, any illegal drug you want really - and it's ALL delivered to your door.
This is what Liam Lyburd used to purchase weapons and ammunition.
Using the screen name "DonaldTrump" Lyburd was active on a site called Evolution - it's now closed down - but over the course of my investigation into it I found he was sourcing weapons as early as May 2014.
When he was arrested at his Newcastle home in November last year Evolution users took to forums discussing him, or Donald Trump, as they knew him.
One particular person was very concerned, we can exclusively reveal a user going by the name Vintorez admitted selling Lyburd part of his weapons cache.
Vendor/Seller Vintorez:
"I'm saled to this guy. JHP 9mm ammo, and one G19g3 Frame....he has complete Glock 19"
In further posts seen by myself Vintorez says "I'm never sale more JHP ammo"
JHP ammo = jacketed hollow point bullets, also known as JHP, is designed to cause severe damage. Liam Lyburd was found with almost 100 rounds.
During Lyburd's trial he admitted assembling a haul including a Glock handgun, ammunition, CS Gas and making home made explosives.
All undetected and unknown to authorities - he was ONLY discovered to be plotting mass murder through posts on Facebook page on the "normal" Internet.
The Dark Web isn't something new, it's been around for decades, increasingly though, more and more are turning to it as a source for illegal activities.
Liam Lyburd will be sentenced in September.