British detective jailed in phone-hacking scandal
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In this file photo taken on, Jan 7, 2013, British police officer Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn arrives at Southwark Crown Court in central London. Detective Chief Inspector Casburn has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for trying to sell information to Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid. -- PHOTO: AFP
LONDON (AP) - A senior British counterterrorism detective has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for trying to sell information to Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid.
Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn, 53, was the first person convicted on charges related to Britain's phone-hacking scandal since a police investigation was reopened in early 2011.
She was found guilty last month of misconduct for phoning the tabloid and offering to pass on information about whether London's police force would reopen its stalled phone-hacking investigation.
Casburn, who managed the Metropolitan Police terrorist financing investigation unit, was sentenced Friday at London's Old Bailey criminal court.
