https://thehotstar.net/eyeofthechickenhawk.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/27/childprotection.uk
An informant claimed to have seen films screened at the Gay Palace showing boys aged 11-14 being raped by masked men and that Spinks, the clubs manager, had been selling copies of a “special videotape” for £4000 of a boy being tortured. Another informant named “Frank” described a film Spinks had shown him. It had been a snuff film shot inside a barn, showing a boy being tortured with needles then castrated and cut open with a knife. An informant named “Terry” described a snuff film in which a boy had been killed in exactly the same manner - tortured, castrated, then cut open with a knife. Only this one had been filmed inside an apartment not a barn.74a 74b
Yet another informant named “Edward” claimed to have seen five of these snuff films allegedly produced by Spinks and his associates a house in Hoofddorp and on a houseboat. Spinks had a house in Hoofddorp and had used canal boats moored just outside of central Amsterdam as discreet locations for clients of his escort service. He also had an associate named Peter Howells, a convicted pedophile who operated a children’s talent agency called Bovver Boots from a houseboat in central Amsterdam.75 76
An undercover officer posing as a client managed to elicit the following from Spinks, "I knew, some people who were involved in making snuff movies and how they did it was, they only sold them in limited editions, made 10 copies or something, 10 very rich customers in America, who paid $5,000 each, which is a lot of money to watch some kids being snuffed".77
"Welfare staff at Naypic have been convinced by Andrew and other runaways that such [snuff] films are being made. They have been told of a paedophile group known as the Elite Twelve, which is prepared to pay up to Pounds 5,000 to youngsters to make videos involving torture and sado-masochism, and which may lead to murder.
"They have also been told of a snuff movie made last year when a 14-year-old boy was beaten by three men in an East End flat, raped and battered to death with clubs.
"Chris Fay, an adult adviser to the association, said: "I am convinced such videos exist. I have been shown one in Amsterdam by a Dutch colleague. It showed three men wearing leather masks cutting up a girl aged about 13 with a flick knife." 65
Other evidence of snuff movies had surfaced several weeks before the article above was published. In September 2000, the Italian media broke the story of a Russian child abuse network -centered in Murmansk and Moscow- which besides regular child pornography and hardcore SM, also shot snuff movies, selling them for at least 4,000 pounds per video. The children were recruited through familiar tactics: they were lured away from the street or orphanages with empty promises, while a small number was kidnapped. Most clients, among them businessmen and government officials, came from Italy and Germany; others came from France, Britain, America and Japan. Several "large financial companies" were tied to the network, but names weren't given. 73 The Observer reported:
"Last week Italian police seized 3,000 of Kuznetsov's videos on their way to clients in Italy, sparking an international hunt for paedophiles who have bought his products. The Italian investigators say the material includes footage of children dying during abuse…
"The Russian videos, which had been ordered over the internet, were intercepted when they came into Italy by post, repackaged and then delivered by undercover police officers. They cost between Pounds 300 and Pounds 4,000, depending on what type of film was ordered.
"Covert film of young children naked or undressing was known as a 'SNIPE' video. The most appalling category was code-named 'Necros Pedo' in which children were raped and tortured until they died
After buying some of the pedophile goods, which included a painful rape of a small child, van Rossem went back to one of the sex shops and asked for even more hardcore material for which he was willing to pay a hefty price. He hinted that he would like to see a girl being murdered on camera. Within a week, van Rossem received what he had ordered for 5,000 euros, a price quite similar to later reports.