Security News > 2020 > October > Crown Prosecution Service solicitor accused of targeting judge ex-wife's lover through work computer systems
A Crown Prosecution Service lawyer is on trial accused of unlawfully accessing information about his judge wife's new lover after their marriage broke down.
Scott Ainge, 47, was accused by estranged wife Kate of mounting "a relentless, determined and continual campaign of harassment" that culminated in him abusing his access to CPS computer systems to look up the criminal past of her new lover.
Public sector workers abusing their access to state computer systems is not uncommon, though it is relatively rare for these cases to be brought to court.
Kate Ainge is not the only judge to have been involved in Computer Misuse Act proceedings in recent years either.
Back in 2018, Crown court judge Karen Jane Holt was herself charged with illegally accessing a case file, though another Crown court judge dismissed the case against her.