Natalie Mottram, whose job involved making threat assessments of organised crime gangs, told Jonathan Kay about the covert EncroChat operation, and that officers had intelligence on him.
A corrupt police employee, who illegally accessed sensitive information to tip off a criminal friend about a secret investigation into serious crime, has been jailed. Natalie Mottram, from Warrington in Cheshire, was working as an intelligence analyst when she was caught in an undercover sting operation to trap whoever was leaking secrets to criminals. The 25-year-old was with the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit when she was arrested by National Crime Agency officers on 12 June 2020.
After meeting Kay and Bennett at their property, the prosecution said this was when Mottram corruptly informed them about the intelligence log concerning Kay. Telecomms data also shows the same evening Bennett's phone contacted a phone belonging to the partner of the man who cannot be named, arranging a meeting in a supermarket car park. Four arrests Mottram, Kay, Bennett and the man were all arrested later that day and £200,000 in cash was recovered from Kay and Bennett's house.
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