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The mother of a British student who is facing extradition to the United States over alleged copyright offences online has spoken of her anguish that he could face a possible jail sentence.

Criminal offences online such as instigating violence and creating and spreading rumours have also increased, the paper says.

One legal system, the traffic penalty tribunal (TPT), already deals with 25,000 appeals about minor driving and parking offences online a year.

Stephen Kavanagh, who heads Essex police, argues it is necessary to consolidate and simplify offences committed online to improve the chance of justice for tens of thousands of victims.

"The Metropolitan police service is committed to working with our partners, including the mayor, to tackle all types of hate crime including offences committed online," a spokesman for the Met said.

"A lot of attention is given, rightly, to the victims of sexual offences and online images," Kate continues, before taking a moment to compose herself.

Meanwhile, the figures for crime excluding online offences dropped in the year, falling by 6%.

Possession of the most extreme forms of adult pornography will become an offence, while online content will have the same restrictions as DVDs sold in sex shops.

An April 2009 study by the internet security firm McAfee shows that data theft and other online offences have robbed global businesses of that staggering amount.

Wanless said the charity had obtained the data in order to highlight how police were under increasing pressure from the scale of online offences.

Online offences are generally considered as frequent and intentional acts performed by a member with the aim to deceive others.