Corrupt Police Officer DC Hywel Jones Jailed For Selling Information From Police National Database To Criminals

DC Hywel Jones, 45 , sold information from the national police database to Barry Wise, the uncle of former England footballer Dennis Wise, and was sentenced to sentenced to four and a half years.

The details included the whereabouts of a drug dealer with several contracts out on his life, updates of a police investigation into a Heathrow Airport robbery, registration numbers of undercover police cars and personal details held on numerous criminal suspects

Jones, a married father of two and serving Met officer of 24 years, met Wise on at least a dozen occasions at pubs, street corners and a swimming pool across West London. Wise acted as a middle man passing the data on to known criminals.