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.
Michael Westbury, 55, of Aberystwyth, Wales, confessed to seven charges under the Computer Misuse Act and two under the Data Protection Act at Aberystwyth Magistrates' Court on 1 October.
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.
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