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Davis had become a near recluse, rejecting the real world in favour of internet chat rooms.

"At the time I was 17 or 18-years-old, quite mentally unstable, and in a bad place," he says of that period.

"At times I could see through the haze http://www.wintercoatsale.co.uk of the internet and could see there would be consequences, but it was more a case of 'who cares if there are consequences?' I just want to live in the moment."

Online persona

Lulzsec emerged as a splinter group of the Anonymous hacking group in May 2011.

Its members employed techniques to flood websites with high traffic - known as DDoS attacks - in order to render them unusable.

Continue reading the main story SENTENCES HANDED DOWN Jake Davis (aka Topiary) - 24 months in a young offenders institute, of which he will serve 38 days. He has been wearing an electronic tag for 21 months which count against his sentence Ryan Ackroyd (aka Kayla) - 30 month custodial sentence, of which he will serve half http://www.wintercoatsale.co.uk/moncler Mustafa al-Bassam (aka Tflow) - 20 month sentence, suspended for two years, plus 300 hours of unpaid work Ryan Cleary (aka Viral) - 32 month sentence. Cleary was not a core member of Lulzsec.

There were many Lulzsec associates, but only half a dozen or so central characters.

Aside from Jake Davis, there was Ryan Ackroyd, aka Kayla, and Mustafa al Bassam, aka Tflow in the UK. In the US there was Hector Monsegur, aka Sabu, and Avunit, whose identity is unknown.

In the real world these individuals lived continents apart and never met. Online they adopted colourful characters as they crashed websites and published the data they hacked.