16/04/2007

Civil servant in court over ‘misconduct’

A 22-year-old County Antrim civil servant has been charged with misconduct in public office and will appear at Belfast Magistrates Court.

Aaron Hill, of Mainebank, Randalstown has been charged with allegedly illegally accessing information from the PSNI computer system, detectives have revealed.

The court heard the information had been accessed over a five-year period.

He is also accused of misconduct in public office, possession of information likely to be of use to terrorists and breaching the Data Protection Act.

A second man has also been arrested during the same operation last Friday, however he was released without charge.

(JM)

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