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Corrupt detective jailed

Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn has been jailed for 15 months after being found guilty last month of misconduct in public office for offering to sell information to the News of the World.

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Met: 'Corruption of this kind will not be tolerated'

Detective Chief Superintendent Gordon Briggs, is overseeing the inquiries into phone hacking, corrupt payments and other privacy breaches.

Speaking outside court, after a senior counter-terrorism detective was found guilty of offering to leak information to the News of The World on the phone-hacking inquiry, he said.

It's totally unacceptable for a serving police officer to leak confidential information to journalists for private gain. In doing so they let down the public and they let down their hard-working honest colleagues.

To act in that way is a gross breach of public trust. I hope today's verdict demonstrates our commitment to rooting out this kind of corruption and demonstrates that corruption of this kind will not be tolerated in the Metropolitan Police Service.

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