A senior RUC officer was today jailed for two years following the largest internal anti-corruption investigation ever undertaken by the force.
Inspector Derek John Robinson (45) had pleaded guilty to 17 charges including fraud and interfering with the judicial system.
He also admitted to obtaining property by deception, handing a forged letter to a magistrate, failing to prosecute a case properly and advising his partner - an RUC constable - to tell lies during a police probe.
The charges followed an undercover operation by detectives between October 1995 and February 1997.
Robinson, based at Omagh, admitted a number of conspiracy to defraud charges through which he accrued around £12,000.
Sentencing him today at Craigavon Crown Court, sitting at the Royal Courts of Justice in Belfast, Mr Justice McLaughlin said: "You have pleaded guilty to a proverbial catalogue of offences which would make even a hardened criminal blush."
"But in the case of a police officer, let alone an inspector, they constitute infamous conduct on your part."
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