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A senior Metropolitan Police detective has been found guilty of offering to sell inside information on the phone-hacking probe to the News of the World.A senior Metropolitan Police detective has been found guilty of offering to sell inside information on the phone-hacking probe to the News of the World.
A Southwark Crown Court jury convicted Det Ch Insp April Casburn, 53, from Essex, of misconduct in public office.A Southwark Crown Court jury convicted Det Ch Insp April Casburn, 53, from Essex, of misconduct in public office.
The counter-terrorism officer was the first person to be prosecuted under Operation Elveden, the probe into payments by journalists to officials. Her phone call came as the inquiry into hacking by the NoW reopened in 2010.
The News of the World closed amid the scandal of it hacking into voicemails. The counter-terrorism officer is the first person to be prosecuted under Operation Elveden, the probe into payments by journalists to officials.
Prosecutor Mark Bryant-Heron said Casburn "sought to undermine a highly sensitive and high-profile investigation". The Sunday tabloid was closed down in 2011 amid outrage over its hacking into the voicemails.
The charge relates to 11 September 2010 when Ms Casburn, from Hatfield Peverel, was working in counter-terrorism, managing the national terrorist financial investigation unit.
Southwark Crown Court heard one of her team had been asked to carry out financial investigations as part of the Scotland Yard inquiry into phone hacking.
Casburn has been released on bail ahead of sentencing.Casburn has been released on bail ahead of sentencing.
The judge, Mr Justice Fulford, was told she is currently in the process of adopting a three-year-old child.
He said: "A real possibility is an immediate custodial sentence, but I'm obviously going to have to consider very carefully the issues that we've ventilated this afternoon and any other mitigation."
Speaking outside court, Det Ch Supt Gordon Briggs said it is "totally unacceptable from a serving police officer to leak confidential information about a live police investigation to journalists for private gain.
"In doing so they let down the public and they let down their hardworking honest colleagues... today's verdict demonstrates our commitment to rooting out that kind of corruption."
'Gross breach'
The trial heard that in September 2010 Casburn contacted the News of the World, days after Scotland Yard reopened its inquiry.
The newspaper did not print a story after the call and no money changed hands.
But prosecutor Mark Bryant-Heron said Casburn was guilty of a "gross breach" of public trust and had "sought to undermine a highly sensitive and high-profile investigation".
The charge related to when Casburn, from Hatfield Peverel in Essex, was managing the national terrorist financial investigation unit.
Southwark Crown Court heard one of her team had been asked to carry out financial investigations as part of the Scotland Yard inquiry into phone hacking.
The detective, at the time the most senior female investigator in Scotland Yard's counter terrorism command, denied asking for cash - and said she had contacted the newspaper out of the public interest.
Casburn told the jury she was angry that her superiors at Scotland Yard had decided to divert officers from counter terrorism.