A former police officer has been jailed for 10 months for selling details of arrests of celebrities to The Sun newspaper.
Ex-Surrey PC Alan Tierney was sentenced at the Old Bailey after admitting two counts of misconduct earlier this month.
He pleaded guilty to selling information on the arrests of footballer John Terry's mother and Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood.
He admitted two counts - one between March 26 and April 3, 2009, and a second between December 2 and 7, 2009.
He sold details about Sue Terry and Sue Poole, the mother and mother-in-law of former England football captain John Terry, both being arrested on suspicion of shoplifting in Surrey.
He also sold details about the arrest of guitarist Ronnie Wood, 65, on suspicion of beating up his Russian lover Ekaterina Ivanova, who is in her 20s.
Terry, Poole and Wood all accepted cautions over the matters.
Passing sentence at the Old Bailey today, Mr Justice Fulford said that Tierney's offences were "a disgraceful way for a police officer to act".
The judge said: "It is wholly against the public interest for those who hold public office cynically to profit out of the misery or unfortunate circumstances of those for whom they are responsible."
The court heard that Tierney had sold the name and address of a witness to the Wood incident.
Mr Justice Fulford said: "The most serious aspect of the two offences is that, in relation to count two, the defendant provided the name and, most significantly, the address of the witness.
"The fact that the individual coincidentally tried to sell the story to another newspaper is neither here nor there in terms of what this defendant had in mind.
"Put bluntly, it could easily have led to that witness withdrawing all co-operation as regards being a witness."
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