Police officers accused of data breaches or leaking information in Tony Parsons case

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Mike Parsons is accused of accessing the LinkedIn profile of Caroline Muirhead while she was helping his colleagues investigate those responsible for the disappearance of father Tony Parsons.Her details were supposed to have been kept confidential after she passed on information about her ex-fiance Alexander ‘Sandy’ McKellar who was jailed last week for killing Tony and burying his body.The Sunday Mail can reveal he is one of at least five officers accused of data breaches or leaking information now being probed by police watchdog the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (PIRC), after a request by Crown Office prosecutors- eight of which are being considered criminal.Caroline said: “He shouldn’t have known my name and I don’t know how he would have known unless he was told it or found out because he is a police officer.

Either way it’s a complete breach of my privacy and my data as has been happening all along.”Sandy, 31, was sentenced to 12 years for culpable homicide on Friday for killing Tony after striking him with his car while drunk driving on a rural Highland road and then burying his body in a peat bog.

His twin brother Robert was sentenced to five years and three months for defeating the ends of justice by helping to bury Tony’s body.Mike made an emotional Crimewatch appeal 18 months after his 63-year-old dad who had been on a charity cycle ride when he was struck by the twins in September 2017.

In the TV interview, he said: “We are just looking to try and get him home; to find out what happened that night; where has he been.“We don’t have these answers and without them, we can’t move on.