Detective convicted of bid to sell details to NOTW
A senior detective who sold information to a tabloid newspaper became the first person to be convicted under the fresh police investigations into phone hacking and corrupt payments today.
Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn, 53, was found guilty of misconduct in public office for offering to sell details to the News of the World.
She admitted contacting the newspaper, claiming she was worried that resources meant for fighting terrorism might be wasted on the phone hacking inquiry, which her colleagues saw "as a bit of a jolly".
But jurors at Southwark Crown Court took just three-and-a-half hours to unanimously find her guilty.
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Mr Justice Fulford warned she is likely to face jail, despite being in the process of adopting a three-year-old child.
He said: "A real possibility is an immediate custodial sentence, but I'm obviously going to have to consider very carefully the issues that we've ventilated this afternoon and any other mitigation."
Casburn was managing the National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit when she made the call on September 11, 2010.
She told the court she was angered by her colleagues' attitudes to the phone hacking inquiry, and said there was "palpable excitement" over who would get to meet Hollywood actress Sienna Miller.
Casburn, from Hatfield Peverel in Essex, likened the male-dominated unit to the TV series Life On Mars.
She will be sentenced in the week beginning January 28.
Comments
by farley22
Saturday, January 12 2013, 10:58AM
“typical... hang the wistle blower instead of diciplining the people who are at fault.
she should not maybe of gone about it in the way that she did but how else was she meant to make any noise in this male orientated job and get listened to at the same time.
bunch of jimmy saville hugging idiots”