Operation Dark Phone: Murder by Text

Operation Dark Phone: Murder by Text (2025)


  • Genre: Crime, Documentary
  • Creator: Zac Beattie
  • First Air Date: 2025-07-27
  • Last Air Date: 2025-07-30
  • Total Seasons: 1
  • Total Episodes: 4
  • Status: Ended
  • Episode Runtime: 46 min.
  • Production Company: The Garden Productions
  • Networks: Channel 4
star 8/10
From 4 Ratings

Summary

The incredible inside story of a huge police operation to infiltrate dangerous global crime gangs through their encrypted phone network. Operation Dark Phone : Murder by Text is the inside story the biggest ever joint law enforcement operation against a global network of organised crime groups who believed their encrypted phones were safe. Until a collaboration between international authorities - led in the UK by the National Crime Agency - managed to hack their phones to reveal the astonishing details of their messages. For the first time since the EncroChat network was infiltrated in 2020, the messages sent and the criminals exposed are exclusively revealed in a four part documentary series that tells the story in compelling and shocking detail. For 74 frantic days the authorities could read all the messages and sought to save lives and bring down the gangs, before the criminals realised their data was being captured.

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Operation Dark Phone: Murder by Text Seasons

Season 1

First Air Date: 2025-07-27
4 Episodes

Operation Dark Phone: Murder by Text Episodes

Title Air Date Duration
Season 1Episode 1Episode 160 min
Season 1Episode 2Episode 260 min
Season 1Episode 3Episode 360 min
Season 1Episode 4Episode 460 min
  • Kenny Blyth

    as LuxuryBalloon
  • Russell Anthony

    as ThrowTheDice
  • Chris Eastwood

    as Keyhole
  • Ahmed Elmusrati

    as TypicalTea
  • John Hoye

    as BoldMove
  • Michael Wagner

    as Slempo
  • Matt Horne

    as Self - Gold Commander National Crime Agency
Production Zac Beattie Producer
Production Simon Ford Executive Producer