Ex-police jailed for leaking to press

A former Met Police constable has been jailed for two years for leaking to media mogul Rupert Murdoch™s tabloid The Sun.

Paul Flattley pleaded guilty to misconduct in a public office at a hearing at London’s Old Bailey court in March and is the fourth police officer to be jailed as part of the Operation Elveden investigation, an investigation into inappropriate payments to police and public officials in Britain.

According to the reports, the 30-year-old police officer made £7,600 from providing private information about wealthy Chelsea residents, including the Duchess of Cambridge, between May 2008 and September 2011.

Justice Fulford said Flattley™s behaviour was œutterly reprehensible”, adding that œhe did not care what effect his activities would have on the victims and others involved in the various cases about which he provided information.”

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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