The corrupt police analyst who told serious villains 'WhatsApp for criminals' had been hacked
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA corrupt police analyst has been jailed after she was caught revealing to the underworld that the secret EncroChat communications platform had been hacked by law enforcement.
Natalie Mottram, 25, who worked as an intelligence analyst at the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit (NWRCU), told her personal trainer Jonathan Kay, 39, a minor criminal, that the platform, known as WhatsApp for criminals, had been hacked.
He told a suspected serious criminal, and a court heard the revelation soon spread in the underworld and villains were able to stop using EncroChat and avoid justice.
Today (Friday) both Mottram - who had a £1,500-a-month cannabis habit, and father-of-two Kay were jailed over the leak. Encrochat was shut down on the day they were arrested. READ MORE: 'It was a complete brutal onslaught…' - Motorist knocked out cold by stranger on petrol station forecourt READ MORE: '3D-printed guns' and ammunition seized in police raid with two arrested Jailing Mottram at Liverpool, Judge Neil Flewitt KC told her: "It's a tragedy that as a result of these offences you have lost your reputation, your career and you must now lose your liberty. "However, I have no doubt you knew and understood the trust place in you by your employer.
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