Web giants urged to tackle child abuse images online

Leading internet companies will be summoned to a meeting today where they will come under "unrelenting" pressure to do more to tackle child abuse images on the web.

Culture Secretary Maria Miller will tell technology organisations, including Google, Microsoft and Facebook, to produce plans to combat the spread of child abuse images.

Internet firms have already taken some action under pressure from ministers and in the wake of recent high-profile cases of child murder, but Mrs Miller will urge them to go further.

Mark Bridger, who killed April Jones, and Stuart Hazell, murderer of Tia Sharp, were both found to have accessed child and violent pornography and some experts argue there is a clear link between their obsessions and their actions.

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