Darren Conway admitted at Wood Green Crown Court, London, to a series of charges including voyeurism, possessing extreme pornographic images and aiding or inciting sexual assault. The man encouraged these attacks via an online discussion forum on which images of these attacks were then shared.
In particular, he admitted to having asked a man, in 2025, to undress and attack his sleeping wife and to share images of the events with him. He also requested images of unconscious women on at least ten occasions between 2023 and 2026. His sentence will be set on October 30.
A vast investigation leading to his arrest
The online discussion group, in which videos of sexual assault and domestic violence were exchanged across the United Kingdom, was discovered in October 2025.
An extensive investigation, coordinated by the UK Crime Agency (NCA) and the London Metropolitan Police (Met), led to the arrest of Darren Conway on July 30 at his home.
“By inciting others to attack victims who were unconscious, sleeping or under the influence of drugs, he exposed women to serious danger in their own homes, solely for his sexual gratification,” said Commander Andy Day of the Met Police, quoted in a statement.
Some victims could be abroad
Investigations are continuing to identify all the victims appearing on the digital media seized from Darren Conway in July, the authorities not excluding that some of them live abroad.
Several cases of sexual violence facilitated by chemical submission have recently surfaced in the United Kingdom. This practice of administering to a person, without their knowledge or under duress, a psychoactive substance for tort or criminal purposes has been widely publicized with the Dominique Pelicot affair, named after this man sentenced in 2024 in France in a trial with worldwide repercussions.
His ex-wife Gisèle Pelicot has become a leading figure in the fight against sexual violence for having publicly testified to the rapes she suffered, committed by dozens of men recruited by her ex-husband.
