Policeman jailed for ignoring pimp’s activities in return for free sex

A CORRUPT British policeman who fuelled his lust for sex by ignoring a vicious pimp’s activities in return for free sex with his drug-addicted call girls was jailed for seven years yesterday.

Beat bobby Graham Brown struck up a deal with "Turbo Tommy" Hay in which he pulled confidential information off the Northumbria Police database in return for sordid sessions with the girls.

On some occasions, the 32-year-old constable had sex with heroin addicts on the settee of the home he shared with his policewoman fiancee Lois Murray while she worked nightshifts.

Brown also turned a blind eye to Hay's offending.

When Hay savagely attacked one of his prostitutes, Brown had unsuspecting Murray, who was on patrol with him, radio into control that it was a domestic incident which had been dealt with, Newcastle Crown Court heard.

That incident also led to Ms Murray being charged with corruption after Hay claimed he paid her £300 (€428) as a "thank you" for radioing in the call.

Ms Murray, 34, of Kingston Park, Newcastle, who denied one charge of corruption and one related charge of misconduct in failing to fulfil her duty as a police officer, was cleared by a jury. Brown had denied 10 charges of misconduct in a public office between May 1999 and October 2002.

He was convicted of two offences of corruption, one of misconduct in a public office and one of conspiracy to blackmail. He was cleared of six other charges.

He was jailed for four years on each of two corruption charges to run concurrently and three years for misconduct in public office and three years for conspiracy to blackmail to run concurrently but consecutive to the four-year sentence.

Brown was convicted after a trial in October and sentenced in November but a court order prevented any reporting until the outcome of other related cases, the last of which ended yesterday.

During Brown's trial the court heard that on some occasions the officer had prostitutes driven to his former police house in Riding Mill and also took the girls back to his parents' home in Northumberland, where he slept with one of them in his sister's bedroom.

Judge John Milford, QC, told Brown: "As a PC in Northumbria and a PC with a morbid interest in prostitutes, you started to use prostitutes run by a pimp, Thomas Hay.

"You received the services of prostitutes for free in return for you failing to bring him to justice for his crimes and providing him with useful information from the police computer.

"In January 2001 you were called to an incident which involved Hay beating one of his prostitutes with a baseball bat.

"Instead of arresting him and rescuing the woman from his clutches, you allowed the matter to be glossed over unintentionally by your colleague Murray."

Brown claimed he always paid for sex with the vice girls and only passed on police information because he was being threatened with blackmail by Hay.

Hay, two other men and a woman, who have admitted various charges in relation to prostitution and blackmail are due to be sentenced on tomorrow. A fourth man is due to be sentenced at a later date.