Police worker jailed for leaking details about murder case

Call handler accessed confidential data and passed it on to friends and family

AFORMER West Midlands Police worker who supplied confidential information to family members has been jailed.

Hannah Wilson, who worked within Force Contact answering emergency calls, had been employed by West Midlands Police at West Bromwich police station since October 2016 as a civilian contact officer.

She was found to be supplying information to her sister on people they knew by checking their criminal records. She also gave her sister’s partner details on a court case in which he was a defendant, as well as supplying information to a pub landlady on incidents reported at other pubs, Birmingham Crown Court heard.

Wilson, of Waldron Close, Wednesbury, was arrested in September last year and charged with three counts of conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office between October 2017 and August 2018.

She while resigned from her position under investigation and pleaded guilty to the charges, as did her sister Hayley Wilson, 38, of Ely Close, Rowley Regis.

Hayley’s partner Allan Stewardson, 49, also of Ely Close in Rowley Regis, and Jayne Lloyd, who lived at and ran the Knights Quest pub on Rowley Regis High Street, were each found guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office at a trial in September.

Hannah Wilson was sentenced to 14 months in prison and Hayley Wilson received a ten-month sentence suspended for two years, as well as 200 hours’ community service.

Stewardson was sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment suspended for two years and given a threemonth curfew.

Jayne Lloyd was handed a ninemonth sentence suspended for two years and ordered to carry out 200 hours of community service.

Judge Mark Wall QC said: “You, Hannah Wilson, breached the trust placed in you as an employee of West Midlands Police. You can have been in no doubt what you were doing was wrong.

“There was no ulterior

motive behind that conspiracy. It was born of a desire to know more than you were both entitled to about what was going on in your community.”

The court heard that Hannah Wilson had a close relationship with her sister – they would talk to each other regularly and would discuss matters, which she obtained from police logs, that were “ordinarily off limits”, the court heard.

Hannah Wilson had chatted with her sister about a murder investigation following the death of a 27-year-old man, after accessing information which included details of the deceased’s family, CCTV and potential witnesses.

They had also spoken about police attending a domestic incident and also an apparent double suicide involving parents of three children.

Detective Chief Inspector Julian Harper, from the West Midlands Police Professional Standards Department, said: “I am deeply disappointed that a member of West Midlands Police abused their position. This form of corrupt activity undermines the community’s confidence in the service and we have absolutely zero tolerance for it.”