A senior police officer has become the first person to be convicted as a result of the £40m investigations into phone hacking and corruption of public officials
Mr Justice Fulford warned Casburn, a mother of three, that she faced an immediate custodial sentence and the Metropolitan police said she had "betrayed the service and let down her colleagues".
"There may be occasions when putting certain information into the public domain, so called whistleblowing, can be justified." This was not one of them. In this case DCI Casburn approached the News of the World, the very newspaper being investigated, to make money."
She said she had been bullied for two years.
"I think in some circumstances it is right to go to the press, because they do expose wrongdoing and they expose poor decisions," she said.
But the jury rejected her defence
Summary:
Police officer has been reporting information to News of the World and reportedly says it was whistleblowing (saying things in public intrest) , however it was justified she was only doing it for money...
The corruption of society is recognised and the relliability of whistleblowers and ordinary jounalists or reporters can come into question wheteher they are only doing it for money and fame ?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/10/police-guilty-trying-sell-information
Mr Justice Fulford warned Casburn, a mother of three, that she faced an immediate custodial sentence and the Metropolitan police said she had "betrayed the service and let down her colleagues".
"There may be occasions when putting certain information into the public domain, so called whistleblowing, can be justified." This was not one of them. In this case DCI Casburn approached the News of the World, the very newspaper being investigated, to make money."
She said she had been bullied for two years.
"I think in some circumstances it is right to go to the press, because they do expose wrongdoing and they expose poor decisions," she said.
But the jury rejected her defence
Summary:
Police officer has been reporting information to News of the World and reportedly says it was whistleblowing (saying things in public intrest) , however it was justified she was only doing it for money...
The corruption of society is recognised and the relliability of whistleblowers and ordinary jounalists or reporters can come into question wheteher they are only doing it for money and fame ?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/10/police-guilty-trying-sell-information
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