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UK: PC Katie Murray jailed for leaking Cregan and drugs info to sister and ex-lover

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Dissent

BBC reports:

A PC who passed on intelligence about police killer Dale Cregan and planned drugs raids to her sister and drug-dealing former lover has been jailed.

Katie Murray, 30, of Dunkirk Street in Droylsden, accessed police computers to get the confidential information.

She was found guilty of breaching the Data Protection Act and conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office.

At Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court she was jailed for two years and nine months.

Read more on BBC.


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