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| Ex-News of The World reporter sentenced over story payment | |
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| An ex-News of The World journalist who paid for tip-offs about James Bulger's killer has been given a six-month suspended prison sentence. | |
| The reporter had been found guilty last month of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office. | The reporter had been found guilty last month of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office. |
| The defendant was accused of paying prison officer Scott Chapman for information after Jon Venables was sent back to prison in 2010. | |
| The journalist has not been named for legal reasons. | The journalist has not been named for legal reasons. |
| The reporter is the first to be convicted after a trial as part of Operation Elveden, the police probe into allegations of inappropriate payments to officers and other public officials. | |
| Chapman was jailed for three-and-a-half years and his ex-partner Lynn Gaffney for 13 weeks, after they were both also convicted of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office. | |
| Chapman, 42, made up to £40,000 by selling information to journalists, his earlier trial heard. | |
| Sentencing the unnamed reporter, Judge Charles Wide said: "It's obvious that you knew perfectly well Scott Chapman was a prison officer. | |
| "You claim to have been acting consciously in the public interest. I do not accept that but I do accept you were trying to satisfy your demanding boss in a fiercely competitive industry." | |
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