Defence barrister Sean Mullan said Little had had a 'spectacular fall from grace'', had lost his PSNI job, his wife left him and took their four children to England
A former PSNI officer was jailed on Thursday for a year for a series of sexual offences involving underage girls while on duty at police headquarters in Belfast.
It said that undercover police officers acting as children aged 12-14 had engaged online with an individual based in Northern Ireland and the conversations were sexual in nature. Said Ms Pinkerton: "The PSNI were informed by the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland that Mr Little was currently under investigation and had a mobile device seized as part of their investigation in May 2020. This was passed to the investigating team for examination.
A large number of non-indecent images of young girls were found on his mobile along with his web browsing history."He was a serving police officer, on duty at the time of these sexual communications and involved in taking pictures of himself while in police headquarters.'' Jailing Little for 12 months, Judge Mark Reel told him he would spend a further two years on supervised licence after his release.
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