A Sunderland detective, whose job involved trying to recruit secret informants for the police, has been cleared of wrongly looking at people's files and details purely because he was "nosy".
Hull Crown Court heard that Detective Constable Trevor Pugh spent 80% of his time on police computers, researching people and material about them, or linked to them, for possible use in bringing informants on board for covert information purposes. However a police sergeant who looked into his police computer activities decided some of what he was doing had "no apparent police purpose" and was for his own personal curiosity, HullLive reports.
DC Pugh, 44, denied 14 charges involving misusing a police computer system by securing unauthorised access to computer materials between February 2017 and March 2019. He was cleared of all the charges by a jury after a trial.
