Crossed wires derailed a UK child abuse case for months | The Register | Two botched police CSAM raids on innocent persons because literally crossed wires

…police burst through AFG’s door, only to find SPR and FYC in attendance … Police seized devices from the property and took them away for analysis, which yielded no findings of [CSAM] … an engineer carrying out maintenance on a street cabinet serving both properties eight years earlier crossed two wires, which meant that Individual X’s traffic was misidentified as coming from AFG’s home

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/17/crossed_wires_iioc_case/