Davis, identified by police as was arrested in the Shetland Islands a few weeks after Cleary's arrest.

Police claimed that after Davis' arrest, they found incriminating evidence in a computer seized from his home.

The computer allegedly stored details of numerous pre-paid cards in false names, names and passwords of 750,000 random people, and drafts of a fake news story about media baron Rupert Murdoch's death which were used in attacks against Murdoch's News International publishing company.

LulzSec initially downplayed Cleary's arrest and maintained that police had got the wrong man.

A few weeks later, members of the splinter organization of the Anonymous hacking collective, issued a defiant statement despite the arrests.