Security News > 2020 > October > Disgraced cop, 55, spared prison term after admitting he abused police systems to snoop on his girlfriend's ex
A police officer who quit while under investigation for computer misuse crimes has walked free from court after pleading guilty to a total of nine offences.
At the time he committed his crimes, Westbury was a constable with Dyfed-Powys Police.
The Powys County Times reported that he had "Dishonourably" left the force after being caught "Unlawfully accessing information about the ex-partner of a woman he was in a relationship with" at Aberystwyth Police Station in April and May last year.
Westbury was charged after the Office for Police Conduct, a regulator, launched an investigation following a referral by Dyfed-Powys Police.
One who did was Metropolitan Police sergeant Okechukwu Efobi of Harrow, London, who was caught monitoring an ongoing criminal investigation that had nothing to do with him.