A pregnant council worker leaked a sex offender's address to an anti-paedophile group which led to a 30-strong mob arriving at his house threatening to burn it down. Grimsby Live reports that Chloe Carr, who was working for Hull City Council, told the paedophile hunters that the individual "deserves all he gets" and was "bloody awful" and "disgusting" but asked them not to reveal where they got the confidential information about him from.
Hull Crown Court was told that the sex offender was rushed to a new address in the wake of the incident. The court heard that Carr's unprofessional actions helped to "whip up a frenzy" and were "not a public service at all" because they "destabilised" convicted criminals and risked making them "unpredictable".
Carr, 23, of Taylor Avenue, Cottingham, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, pleaded guilty to unlawfully disclosing private data to an online website without consent. She denied misconduct in public office as a customer service adviser for Hull City Council by abusing the public's trust and disclosing confidential and personal data between June 4 and July 2, 2020, and that charge was dropped.
