by Frazer Norwell, reporter

A Kent Current investigation has revealed the ease of access to Class A drugs, weapons and people’s bank details on online black markets with it taking our reporters just 15 minutes to find and browse these sites.  

 This comes five years after a joint operation from the FBI and Europol shut down the largest dark web market, Silk Road, in an attempt to curb cybercrime on the dark web.  

 However, since then hundreds of similar markets have popped up, with websites such as Charlie UK offering Amazon-style next day UK delivery for drugs such as 90% pure heroin or crack cocaine.  

 Another website, Dream Market, has deadly weapons such as knives disguised as credit cards for as little as £8 as well as tasers that look like iPhones available with first class delivery.  

 Another search revealed a staggering 15,000 results for packages containing MDMA, the drug, which killed student Patrick Coaley in a nightclub in Canterbury earlier this summer, available for shipping worldwide.

 These dark web markets also hosted a number of chilling YouTube style tutorials on how to steal people’s identities and how to cut cocaine and heroin.  

 With UK wide shipping these dark web black markets could be responsible for the spread of drugs such as the synthetic substance ‘Spice’, also known as K2, which has wreaked havoc in Manchester and London.  

 Liz Shaw from homeless charity One Big Family Helping the Homeless, revealed to us the devastating impacts the drug has on homeless communities and that known heroin users had warned her about approaching people under the influence of ‘Spice’.