Wednesday 27 March 2013

"Three men jailed for selling information to the Sun"

From the BBC:

A former prison worker and two ex-policemen have been jailed for selling information to newspapers.

Richard Trunkfield, 31, who worked at Woodhill prison near Milton Keynes, was jailed for 16 months for passing on details about one of James Bulger's killers, Jon Venables.

Ex-Surrey PC Alan Tierney, 40, received 10 months for selling details about two cases linked to high-profile people.

A second unnamed ex-officer was sentenced to two years for misconduct. He cannot be named for legal reasons.

By force of habit as much as anything, journalists from The Sun newspaper spent all afternoon on the phone to their narks in the courts and prison services to try and find out which one of their bent coppers has been banged up and are already going through possible puns on the man's name on which to base the headline on tomorrow's front page.

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