A former police employee has admitted misconduct in public office and targeting three people with threatening phone calls and texts.
John Fennelly was working as a "resource controller" for Northumbria Police when he "accessed police systems to obtain personal information about people with no policing purpose". The 57-year-old also pleaded guilty to sending threatening phone calls and texts with intent to cause distress or anxiety to three different people in December last year, including one on Christmas Day.
Fennelly, of Nuneaton Way, in Walbottle, Newcastle, was told all options will be open to the judge who sentences him at Newcastle Crown Court in June. He was further released on conditional bail until then.
