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Former prison officer to be jailed after selling George Michael stories
A former prison officer is to be jailed for selling George Michael’s time in prison to a tabloid newspaper.
Amanda Watts, a 43-year-old from Suffolk, has pleaded guilty to one count of misconduct in public office.
It was found that Watts had leaked details of the gay singer’s time in Highpoint Prison to The Sun for £2,000 ($3,100, €2,750).
Michael had served half of an eight-week sentence in prison after crashing his car into a shop while high on cannabis.
Watts will be formally sentenced next month but was told a ‘prison sentence is inevitable’.
‘You should understand the fact I’m bailing you until [16 October] is to enable you to make appropriate arrangements,’ Judge John Bevan QC said at The Old Bailey, according to the BBC.
Watts was arrested as part of Operation Elveden, a Metropolitan Police investigation into alleged inappropriate payments by journalists to police and other public officials.
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