According to publications by the Child Online Safety Team (COST UK), a UK reporting group whose interventions have led to several documented judicial proceedings, Kasey Fitton, a resident of Bradford (West Yorkshire), was arrested on 13 August 2025.

The case was brought before Bradford Crown Court, the jurisdiction competent for serious crimes and offences in the region. According to public elements reported by COST UK and relayed across several channels (Facebook, Threads, Instagram, TikTok):

• He is reported to have pleaded guilty to the charges (guilty plea 15/09/2025)
• The sentencing hearing, initially set for 13 November 2025, was postponed a first time to 6 March 2026
• He remains in pre-trial custody in the meantime
• In February 2026, COST LIVE announces that the sentencing hearing is again postponed for a "plea and trial hearing" because new evidence has come to light — COST UK does not specify a new date
• At publication date (20 April 2026), TopV has not identified any public publication after 6 March 2026 confirming either that the hearing took place or a further postponement. The editorial team is monitoring COST UK, Red Rose UK and Luke Dyson channels for immediate update as soon as new information emerges.

1.1 — Official letter from Bradford Crown Court

An official letter addressed to a witness who testified to the British police in this case — unique reference 13BD0796225 — was transmitted to the editorial team. It confirms the guilty plea of 15 September 2025 and the maintenance in pre-trial custody.

Official Bradford Crown Court document — Case against Kasey Fitton — Unique Reference Number 13BD0796225 — guilty plea 15/09/2025Bradford Crown Court (gov.uk)

The document comes with a photo transmitted to the editorial team under the file title "Suspect photo.PNG", already publicly distributed by COST UK and by activist Luke Dyson as part of their August 2025 reporting.

Photo transmitted to the editorial team (file "Suspect photo.PNG") — public distribution by COST UK and Luke Dyson as part of the August 2025 reporting

1.2 — Initial public report by Luke Dyson (13 August 2025)

Luke Dyson, a British anti-child-exploitation activist whose reports have led to multiple documented judicial proceedings, publishes on the day of the arrest a Twitter/X post naming Kasey Fitton. His message specifies the nature of the alleged offences and indicates that Fitton would have already been on bail for similar offences:

Twitter/X @luke_dyson_fighter — 13/08/2025 — day of arrest — mention of "already on bail for similar things"

Luke Dyson then publishes a second public communication repeating COST UK's elements on the day of pre-trial custody: "Kasey Fitton — Remanded in custody — Case adjourned to the 15th September 2025".

Luke Dyson Facebook — 18/08/2025 — pre-trial custody confirmed, 15 September hearing

1.3 — COST UK publication (16 September 2025)

The day after the guilty plea, the Child Online Safety Team (COST UK) publishes on its official Facebook page @costuk a statement confirming the three main facts: Bradford, pre-trial custody, guilty plea, sentencing scheduled 13 November 2025 (before its first postponement).

Facebook @costuk — 16/09/2025 — post summarizing the guilty plea and the maintenance in custody

1.4 — New development: fresh evidence (February 2026)

On 5 February 2026, COST LIVE publishes an update indicating that the sentencing initially scheduled for November 2025 — then postponed to 6 March 2026 — will now be held as a "plea and trial hearing" because new evidence has come to light. This development indicates that the case may broaden beyond the initially documented scope.

COST LIVE — 05/02/2026 — new hearing scheduled 6 March 2026 for "plea and trial hearing" following emergence of new evidence

1.5 — Kasey Fitton's implicit admission reported by Luke Dyson (January 2026)

In late January 2026, Luke Dyson publishes again: "Mad how they say its not me then turns out it was". The message — accompanied by a photo of Kasey Fitton — comments on the initial denial pattern observed in this case, and reminds that sentencing was imminent.

Luke Dyson Facebook — 28/01/2026 — 190 reactions, comment on the denial pattern

1.6 — Direct interview with Luke Dyson (22 April 2026)

As part of the editorial work on this article, the editorial team contacted Luke Dyson directly via Instagram to obtain first-hand confirmation of the case's judicial outcome. Luke Dyson replied within minutes, first by voice message, then by direct transmission of a photo of the Crown Court letter confirming the guilty plea.

Instagram DM 22/04/2026 — initial editorial request + audio reply from Luke Dyson: "Casey Fitton is definitely not innocent. In fact, Casey Fittens pleaded guilty."

Instagram DM — Luke Dyson: "Well unfortunately for them mate he pleaded guilty and he's gone to jail. He's admitted he was wrong." + transmission of Crown Court letter photo ("From the police themselves") + "He deserves hell"

This direct exchange brings three elements:

• A first-hand confirmation, from the activist behind the August 2025 public report, that Kasey Fitton pleaded guilty and has been incarcerated.
• A direct transmission — by the activist himself — of the Crown Court letter URN 13BD0796225 photo, independently cross-checking the letter already received by the editorial team from a testifying witness.
• An unambiguous positioning by Luke Dyson regarding ESX-Framework's defence line: "I don't know why they're saying it's not right when he admitted".

Kasey Fitton is known in the FiveM ecosystem under the pseudonym Mycroft. His trajectory within ESX-Framework is publicly documented through several concordant sources.

2.1 — Original founder and handover (2022)

On 12 November 2022, Fitton posted a message on the official Cfx.re forum titled "[Mycroft] Final Farewell" in which he recounts his journey:

forum.cfx.re/t/release-mycroft-final-farewell/4946774 — original post by SQLabs (OP account), November 2022Open on forum.cfx.re

2.2 — Mentioned as "former lead" in a corporate press release (2024)

On 30 May 2024, the American company Hypersonic Laboratories published a press release announcing a 7 million dollar Series A fundraise, distributed via Games Press. The release names:

gamespress.com — official Hypersonic Laboratories press release, 30/05/2024 — click the image to open the full release and read the mention of Kasey Fitton (aka Mycroft)

2.3 — Return as Chief Operating Officer (verified as of today)

At the date of publication, Fitton's public GitHub profile (github.com/Mycroft-Studios) displays the following biography:

github.com/Mycroft-Studios — public profile, captured 20/04/2026 — name "Kasey Fitton", bio "Chief Operating Officer @ ESX-Framework", location "England", link docs.esx-legacy.comOpen on github.com

The official ESX-Framework documentation is furthermore hosted on his personal GitHub account at mycroft-studios.github.io/esx-framework.github.io/, confirming operational control over part of the ESX documentation infrastructure.

His public LinkedIn profile also presents him as affiliated with ESX FRAMEWORK.

On 26 August 2025, thirteen days after Kasey Fitton's arrest, Fezz — publicly identified on his GitHub profile (@FBFezz) as "Director of @esx-framework, Ireland" — posts twice. Publicly first, at 21:19, an @everyone announcement signed "ESX Management". Then privately, at 22:13, in a Discord channel linked to the ESX ecosystem. Fifty-four minutes separate the two publications. They do not say the same thing.

3.1 — The public announcement (26/08/2025, 21:19)

The message contains four central claims, defining the official ESX-Framework line on the day the scandal becomes public:

• "not involved with ESX for over 5 months" — Kasey would have left around March 2025.
• "he has no ties to ESX" — he has no link with the organization.
• "completely distanced ourselves from him" — leadership has fully distanced itself.
• "these remain allegations" — at this stage, facts are not established.

3.2 — The private contradiction (26/08/2025, 22:13 — 54 minutes later)

Fifty-four minutes after signing "ESX Management", the same Discord account fbfezz — visible via the "ESRP" (ESX Syndicate Roleplay) role it bears in this channel — exchanges with an interlocutor identified as "ImNotQuasar". The exchange is reproduced below in full:

3.3 — Confrontation of the two versions

Each public claim from 21:19 is contradicted by the same author, 54 minutes later, in a context where he no longer has the obligation to hold the institutional line:

The heaviest sentence in the private passage is probably the most discreet: "i think it was his irl ex girlfriend". The author of an official ESX statement on a case of child sexual offences, thirteen days after the arrest and twenty days before the guilty plea, privately suggests that the origin of the report would be an ex-girlfriend. This displacement — from the accused to the potential victim or reporter — constitutes the heart of what this article calls a moral asymmetry, documented below.

On 17 April 2026, a Discord user identified under the pseudonym Vampurica initiates contact with this article's author regarding the "Warden & Creator Justice" investigation published by TopV on 13 April 2026 (Discord friend request). Her first documented message is dated 18 April 2026 at 19:29:

Vampurica identifies herself by self-declaration as Owner of the Discord bot "Warden" — the blacklist mechanism documented in the 13 April investigation. Her public GitHub profile (github.com/Vampurica, created 14 November 2013, location USA, display name "Vampire") confirms seniority consistent with the claims she subsequently formulates.

To measure the scope of the apparatus she runs: at the verification date (23 April 2026), the official Warden Discord server counts 29,892 members, with 9,423 online simultaneously. This volume positions Warden as one of the most deployed community mechanisms of the FiveM ecosystem, comparable in scale to the servers of major commercial studios.

Warden public Discord invite — 29,892 total members, 9,423 online at verification time (23/04/2026)

4.1 — Her declared trajectory within ESX-Framework

In several successive messages, Vampurica recounts her community journey and her position as Head Admin at ESX:

Later in the conversation, Vampurica provides a decisive clarification on Mycroft's role within ESX — beyond his Chief Operating Officer title publicly documented via GitHub:

Discord DM — Vampurica specifies that Mycroft became Head Developer of ESX after ArkSeyonet stepped down, as "most experienced remaining ESX staff member"

This clarification shifts the scope of the case. Kasey Fitton is not only publicly presented as Chief Operating Officer of an organization he would have left; according to the direct testimony of the former Head Admin, he would also have been the Head Developer — that is, the person directly controlling the code distributed to over 25,000 FiveM servers. This technical dimension, unlike the symbolic COO role, implies recurring and direct access to the deployed software infrastructure.

4.2 — The spontaneous identification of Mycroft = Kasey

Invited to react to the ESX-Framework article being drafted, Vampurica herself rules out the Indigo and Furrax leads (which she identifies as French) and publicly identifies the subject of the UK investigation:

This identification — formulated by the Owner of a third-party mechanism with no editorial link to TopV — closes the last semantic doubt that could have persisted: the "COO held in pre-trial custody in the United Kingdom" in ESX public documentation is Kasey Fitton, alias Mycroft, alias SQLabs. No speculation, no inference: a self-identification by a third party personally knowing the individual.

4.3 — The structural porosity between the ESX team and Warden

In the same exchange, Vampurica spontaneously confirms a circulation of senior staff (Head Admin, Admin, Head Developer) between the two organizations:

Three facts are established by this sequence: (1) Vampurica, former ESX Head Admin 2021-2022, is today Owner of Warden; (2) Vampurica designates at least one other former ESX admin as being part of Warden staff — claim since contested by the concerned person, see the "Clarification" box above; (3) Mycroft (Kasey Fitton) succeeded in this same ESX Head Developer function, which Vampurica had refused, before his own August 2025 arrest. The link is no longer a suspicion: it is a pipeline confirmed by one of the third-party mechanism's executives, with no editorial interest in the ESX case.

ESX's current Director, Fezz, is not only the author of a contradictory announcement. He is also, at the date of this investigation, an active participant in the apparatus that the "Warden & Creator Justice" investigation of 13 April 2026 identifies as a coordinated harassment network targeting commercial competitors.

5.1 — The official ESX ↔ TinySprite Scripts partnership

In the #partners channel of the official "ESX™ : Community Hub" Discord, a set of studios and brands is referenced as an ESX-Framework partner. Publications carry the signature of their author. Fezz appears nominatively as the author of several partnership posts — including the one of interest here: TinySprite Scripts (TSS), studio led by McKlean (alias "Lil Phantom").

Yet, TSS is not just another studio. According to the TopV "Warden & Creator Justice" investigation — relying on the public footer of the 5mnetwork.xyz site archived before modification — TinySprite Scripts is the declared designer of the 5M Network site, a blacklist platform primarily targeting Quasar Store and, by association, TopV.gg for refusing to remove Quasar's profile. The footer literally references: "Funded by Wasabi Scripts · Designed by TSS".

This partnership is therefore not neutral. It materializes an official commercial relationship between ESX-Framework (embodied by its Director Fezz) and the visual designer of the anti-competitor blacklist mechanism.

Fezz's own Discord profile attests to his positioning within the organization: he explicitly bears the "Management" and "ESX Syndicate RP Staff" roles, with the ESX logo as his main avatar.

Public Discord profile of fbfezz — ESX avatar, "Management" (orange) and "ESX Syndicate RP Staff" (purple) roles, 22 mutual servers

Discord ESX™ : Community Hub — #partners channel — TinySprite Scripts card added by Fezz

5.2 — Active presence of Fezz in CreatorJustice.org

Fezz's Discord identity is public. His profile is displayed below — username @fbfezz, purple "FEZZ" LED banner, 22 mutual servers with the editorial team.

Discord profile — fbfezz — "FEZZ" banner — 22 mutual servers

In the CreatorJustice.org Discord server — identified by the Warden investigation as the operational hub of the anonymous creatorjustice.org mechanism — Fezz appears on several occasions in #chat discussions. Two sequences are documented here.

Sequence 1 — Irish identity discussion. Fezz, conversing with 0CReaper and Solaire, asks Solaire: "Big question… republic or northern, and if republic then what part". This formulation — specific to Ireland's geography — is consistent with the "Ireland" location displayed on his public GitHub profile (@FBFezz).

Sequence 2 — attempt to extract deleted messages from TopV's Discord. In the same channel, McKlean asks: "no one have the plugin that shows deleted messages that are in TopV's discord?". leesoldon indicates having been banned shortly before. Fezz replies: "I would join them but meh" / "Im just existing". leesoldon retorts: "Youl be banned as quick as you join lol". This sequence documents a coordinated attempt to exfiltrate moderated content from TopV's server, attesting to an active adversarial intelligence operation against the TopV platform.

Sequence 3 — public mockery of the ESX investigation in progress. In the same CreatorJustice.org #chat channel, Fezz and McKlean openly mock the investigation article that the TopV editorial team is preparing against them. Asked « whats that / the 24 hrs blackmail? », Fezz replies « esx article », then announces to his interlocutors « Our time is up guys and girls » (translated in italics by the Discord client: « C'est fini, les amis »). McKlean comments: « That should say re-written for the 3rd time ». Fezz adds: « Dont think fox news even rewrites their shit that much ». Fezz then posts a parody-reformatted TopV embed preview (« We are not justice! We are transparency? » / « My name is Damien and nobody will bend me! » / « BE OUTRAGED! »). Several members react with laughing emojis.

The combination of these three sequences — Irish location consistent with Fezz's public GitHub profile, coordinated attempt to exfiltrate TopV Discord data, collective mockery of the ongoing investigation — establishes an active, not passive, participation of Fezz in the CreatorJustice.org apparatus. Sequence 3 is particularly significant: at the very moment the TopV editorial team is documenting judicial facts involving a minor, ESX-Framework's Director and the 5M Network site's designer (McKlean/TSS) turn the investigation into a topic of jokes in a shared Discord channel.

When one juxtaposes all the elements documented in this investigation and those of the preceding "Warden & Creator Justice" investigation, a pattern emerges with disturbing clarity. The same network (ESX-Framework ↔ TSS ↔ 5M Network ↔ Warden ↔ CreatorJustice.org) applies its judgment grid in a radically asymmetric manner depending on the target concerned.

6.1 — The applied judgment grid

6.2 — The network's real criterion of condemnation

If the criterion of condemnation applied by the network were ethical, the asymmetry above would not exist. An organization that publicly sanctions a code copy should a fortiori sanction — or at least clearly and durably separate from — a director criminally convicted for sexual offences involving a minor. This is not what the facts document.

The real criterion of condemnation, as revealed by concrete application, is therefore not moral. It is commercial: each network actor (ESX, TSS, Wasabi, Warden, CJ, RTX) is protected and defended; each actor outside the network and perceived as a competitor (Quasar, TopV by association) is targeted. In this observed functioning, the word "justice" in "Creator Justice" does not designate an ethical institution: it functions de facto as a market-control tool, using the vocabulary of a community tribunal.

6.3 — The asymmetry of the "association" criterion

TopV.gg was added to the Creator Justice site, according to its own operators, for having supported Quasar — that is, for having refused to break a normal commercial association with a creator the network had chosen to condemn. The criterion invoked was association.

If this criterion were applied consistently, ESX-Framework — as an organization publicly hosting the COO title of someone convicted for sexual offences involving a minor — would be the first structure to be reported on Creator Justice. It is not listed there. Its partners are listed there. Its competition is listed there. It is not. The asymmetry of this single case is sufficient to establish that the "association" criterion is not an ethical criterion, but an arbitrary political selection.

The coercive mechanics of the Warden network do not only target direct commercial competitors (Quasar, TopV). They also strike buyers — third parties whose only action was to pay for a script. This pressure is publicly documented on the official Cfx.re forum (owned by Rockstar Games / Take-Two Interactive), in a thread titled "Respect to all developers".

7.1 — Initial post by an anonymous buyer (September 2025)

On 5 September 2025 (10 days before Kasey Fitton's guilty plea), a Cfx.re user identified as caedes94120 publishes a public post on behalf "of all script buyers and developers affected by the situation around Quasar and plagiarism accusations".

forum.cfx.re — "Respect to all developers" thread — caedes94120 (September 2025) — public post on the official Cfx.re forum (Rockstar / Take-Two)

7.2 — The public confirmation of the Warden mechanism

In the same thread, a second user identified as TheLongHodlr replies — explicitly naming Warden as the coercive tool applied to uninvolved buyers:

forum.cfx.re — "Respect to all developers" thread — TheLongHodlr confirms the mechanism: leave Quasar or be blacklisted by Warden, which prevents access to Discord servers using Warden

7.3 — What this thread publicly establishes

On Cfx.re's official discussion platform — i.e., the infrastructure controlled by Rockstar Games / Take-Two Interactive — a public thread documents a fact that is no longer a hypothesis:

• Script buyers (commercial third parties not involved in the dispute) are subjected to coordinated pressure.
• The choice imposed on them is publicly documented: leave Quasar's Discord or be blacklisted by Warden.
• The Warden blacklist has a cascade effect: it prevents access to third-party Discord servers that have deployed the bot.
• This mechanism — coercion by network effect — is documented by independent users, unrelated to TopV or Quasar.

Between 13 August 2025 (date of arrest) and the date of publication — a period of more than seven months — ESX-Framework has published no official communication regarding Kasey Fitton's situation, on any of the following official channels:

• The official website esx-framework.org
• The official documentation docs.esx-framework.org
• The GitHub organization github.com/esx-framework
• The company LinkedIn linkedin.com/company/esx-framework
• The community Discord server
• The official Twitter/X account

Moreover, the esx-framework.org homepage continues to display standard mentions of project governance without any update regarding the situation of its declared COO.

A silent communication on a subject that calls for a response

The stakes are not limited to the reputation of an organization. ESX-Framework is deployed on a base ranging between 12,000 servers (figure displayed in the current official ESX-Framework documentation) and 25,000 servers (figure from the Hypersonic Laboratories press release of May 2024) — one of the two most widely used frameworks in the FiveM ecosystem. These servers host a population a significant portion of which is composed of minors — the YouGov UK study from November 2023 establishes that 71% of British GTA players started before reaching legal adulthood, and the French PELLEAS study (OFDT, 2014) shows that more than 8 out of 10 male secondary-school pupils have already played a PEGI 18 game.

In this context, the silence of an organization on the situation of a director held in pre-trial custody for offences involving a minor raises a legitimate question of governance and responsibility toward its user community.

ESX-Framework is distributed via the Cfx.re ecosystem (owned by Rockstar Games / Take-Two Interactive since 2023), and a large number of ESX resources are commercialized via Tebex.

According to Cfx.re's public documentation, the safety of minors is identified as one of the three maximum priorities of the platform's compliance framework, alongside intellectual property protection and monetization restrictions.

TopV.gg is preparing a formal notification to these three stakeholders at the date of publication. Any public responses received will be integrated as updates to this article.

For editorial rigor, the editorial team clarifies the limits of its investigation:

• ×This article imputes no involvement of any kind, in the documented judicial facts, to end users, server operators, or regular contributors of ESX-Framework. The judicial case concerns Kasey Fitton strictly in a personal capacity.
• ×This article does not prejudge internal decisions that ESX-Framework may have taken outside public communication.
• ×This article does not implicate users or technical contributors of ESX-Framework. It only concerns those who speak on behalf of ESX in public — their personal actions engage the organization.
• ×This article does not question the technical quality of the framework itself.
• ×This article does not constitute a call to boycott, nor a recommendation to cease using ESX-Framework. It documents a situation of public communication and leaves each reader free to form their own judgment.

This article documents the public communication of ESX-Framework and the personal actions of its representatives.

In accordance with journalistic principles of fairness, the TopV.gg editorial team opens a right of reply to the following parties, nominatively designated by this article:

• Fezz / FBFezz — ESX-Framework Director (via [email protected] and his public Discord channels)
• ESX-Framework as an organization (via the official contact address and the ESX™ Community Hub Discord)
• Kasey Fitton / Mycroft-Studios (via his public channels, with strict respect for his presumption of innocence on any pending case other than the one subject to a guilty plea)
• Vampurica (Warden Owner) — who herself requested a dialogue with the author and whose words are quoted here with her implicit consent expressed in her first message
• McKlean / TinySprite Scripts / Lil Phantom
• Wasabi Scripts (via their support Discord)
• Cfx.re Trust & Safety
• Tebex Legal / Compliance
• Rockstar Games / Take-Two Interactive

Any response received will be published in full as an update to this article, without editing or comment, within 72 hours of receipt. Any factual corrections will be transparently flagged in a "Corrections and updates" section.

Editorial note: this article does not constitute a criminal accusation and does not replace any judicial proceeding. The judicial facts concerning Kasey Fitton are reported solely from primary public sources (official Crown Court letter URN 13BD0796225, COST UK publications, Luke Dyson, British activist author of the initial public report). The discussion concerns exclusively the public communication and governance of an organization that publicly retains this director as Chief Operating Officer at the date of publication.