A police constable has been sacked after reportedly tracking down young women motorists through their car numberplates and propositioning them on social media.
Stephen Woods, formerly a PC with Guernsey Police, was dismissed from the Channel Island’s local force after searching for their car registration details to find their names.
A judge rejected his defence that he was looking for new models for a fitness-based Instagram cartoon page that he ran.
“In my view his interest in these women was more than just about comic book drawings,” said Judge Gary Perry, following Woods’ guilty pleas to nine counts of breaking the Data Protection (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law 2017.
Guernsey Magistrates’ Court heard on Friday (4 December) that Woods tracked the women down by using a trust-based lookup system before sending them socia ..
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