{"id":25523,"date":"2015-09-21T08:16:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T12:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/former-prison-officer-to-be-jailed-after-selling-george-michael-stories\/"},"modified":"2015-09-21T08:16:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T12:16:13","slug":"former-prison-officer-to-be-jailed-after-selling-george-michael-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/former-prison-officer-to-be-jailed-after-selling-george-michael-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Former prison officer to be jailed after selling George Michael stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Former prison officer to be jailed after selling George Michael stories<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A former prison officer is to be jailed for selling George Michael&rsquo;s time in prison to a tabloid newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Watts, a 43-year-old from Suffolk, has pleaded guilty to one count of misconduct in public office.<\/p>\n<p>It was found that Watts had leaked details of the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> singer&rsquo;s time in Highpoint Prison to The Sun for &pound;2,000 ($3,100, &euro;2,750).<\/p>\n<p>Michael had served half of an eight-week sentence in prison after crashing his car into a shop while high on cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>Watts will be formally sentenced next month but was told a &lsquo;prison sentence is inevitable&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p>&lsquo;You should understand the fact I&rsquo;m bailing you until [16 October] is to enable you to make appropriate arrangements,&rsquo; Judge John Bevan QC said at The Old Bailey, according to the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>Watts was arrested as part of Operation Elveden, a Metropolitan Police investigation into alleged inappropriate payments by journalists to police and other public officials.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/former-prison-officer-to-be-jailed-after-selling-george-michael-stories\/\">Former prison officer to be jailed after selling George Michael stories<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/\">Gay Star News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Morgan<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/former-prison-officer-to-be-jailed-after-selling-george-michael-stories\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/former-prison-officer-to-be-jailed-after-selling-george-michael-stories\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former prison officer to be jailed after selling George Michael stories A former prison officer is to be jailed for selling George Michael&rsquo;s time in prison to a tabloid newspaper. 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