Officer in plot to blackmail Gerrard

A policewoman is facing jail after seizing CCTV footage of a street bust-up to be used as a "tool to blackmail" England footballer Steven Gerrard.

Helen Jones, 33, a PC with Merseyside Police, obtained the footage by “flashing her warrant card” at a bank.

The incident involved friends of Gerrard, the then-England captain, becoming involved in a row with other men at a bar near his home in Formby, Merseyside, which spilled out on to the street and was caught on the cameras of a nearby bank.