James Bowes pleaded guilty to misconduct in a public office at a hearing at London’s Old Bailey court last month and is the fourth police officer to be convicted of leaking to media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper following an inquiry into phone-hacking scandal.
According to the reports, the 30-year-old officer contacted the tabloid and the now defunct The News of the World on three occasions in 2010 in attempt to sell information to the papers.
Bowes was charged by officers from Operation Elveden, an investigation into inappropriate payments to police and public officials in Britain.
“We are entitled to expect the very highest standards of probity from our police officers,” said Justice Fulford.
The scale of the long-running phone hacking scandal in the country has led to dozens of arrests, the resignation of several senior police officers, and the closure of Murdoch’s 168-year-old British newspaper The News of the World.
The scandal involved allegations of illegal snooping on celebrities, crime victims and politicians among others.
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