Reference: FOI 20170047 POL FED
Subject: PFEW funding of legal representation in criminal cases
QUESTION / RESPONSEThere are below 86 examples from the last 5 years of PFEW members being successfully prosecuted and jailed for a range of serious crimes. My request falls in three separate parts;
1. Please can you confirm which of these 86 example cases had legal costs paid for in part or in total by the PFEW / Please see the attached document in response to your request for information.
2. Please provide the PFEW reference number(s) for those cases which were funded
3. Please provide the total amount spent on each case by the PFEW
NO / DATE OF REPORT / NAME / FORCE / OFFENCE / SENTENCE
1. / March 2017 / Insp Keith Boots / West Yorkshire Police / Class A drug supply / Jailed for 26 years
2. / April 2017 / Insp Darren Lewis / Metropolitan Police / Class C drug supply / Jailed for 3 ½ years
3. / 15th Dec 2016 / CS Gordon Anglesea / North Wales Police / Historic child sex abuse / 12 years (Died in prison 2016)
4. / 2nd Dec 2016 / Ex-PC James Belam / Metropolitan Police / Sexual abuse of young girls (Historic allegations) / Jailed for eight years
5. / 1st Dec 2016 / PC Paul Witherington / Kent Police / Theft of Police equipment / Jailed for 12 months
6. / 20th Oct 2016 / PC Richard Hale / Thames Valley Police / Rape / Jailed for seven years
7. / 4th Oct 2016 / PC Steven Walters / West Midlands / Sexual Assault / Jailed for four years
8. / 30th Aug 2016 / PC James Evans / Metropolitan Police / Sex with underage rape victim / Jailed for four years
9. / 5th Aug 2016 / PC Michael Graham / Metropolitan Police / Seven counts of rape / Jailed for 16 years
10. / 4th Aug 2016 / PC Scott Mayor / Nottinghamshire Police / Making indecent images / Jailed for six months
11. / 4th July 2016 / PC Neville Thompson / Leicestershire Police / Burglary / Jailed for four months
12. / 4th June 2016 / PC Craig Milner / Staffordshire Police / Perverting course of justice / Jailed for four months
13. / 3rd June 2016 / PC Balraj Paul / Warwickshire Police / 13 Indecent images of children / Jailed for 2 years 9 months
14. / 28th May 2016 / PC Kevin Dwyer / Greater Manchester Police / Exposing penis to woman / Jailed for 18 months
15. / 23rd May 2016 / PC Aidan Thompson / Greater Manchester / Filming up women's skirts / Jailed for 14 months
16. / 13th May 2016 / DC Chris Maitland / Metropolitan Police / 14 Child sex offences / Jailed for Five years
17. / 15th April 2016 / PC Mohammad Arshad / Bedfordshire Police / Abusing teenage girls / Jailed for fifteen years
18. / 5th April 2016 / PC John Wigglesworth / Essex Police / Rape of 14 year old girl / Jailed for four years
19. / 30th Mar 2016 / DC Stuart Galloway / Police Scotland / Ignored Sex Abuse claim / Jailed for Eight months
20. / 11th Mar 2016 / Sgt David Robinson / Metropolitan Police / Theft / Jailed for 18 months
21. / 1st Feb 2016 / PC Adrian Goldsmith / Northamptonshire Police / Murder of his wife / Jailed for life
22. / 27th Oct 2015 / Mujibur Ibrahim / Leicestershire Police / Theft of £300,000 / Jailed for 4 years
23. / 23rd Sept 2015 / DC Michael McMillan / Merseyside Police / Charged with misconduct / Jailed for four years
24. / 7th Aug 2015 / PC Andrew Ott / Metropolitan Police / Assault / Jailed for eight months
25. / 10th July 2015 / PC Allan Smith / Dorset Police / Harassment / Jailed for nine months
26. / 28th May 2015 / Sgt David Gibson / Merseyside Police / Charged with Misconduct (sex act while on duty) / Jailed for 2 ½ years
27. / 15th April 2015 / PC Barry Parkinson / Merseyside Police / Charged with burglary / Jailed for seven years
28. / 24th Mar 2015 / PC Chris Higgs / Devon & Cornwall / Fraud / Jailed for five years
29. / 22nd Feb 2015 / Alan Saffery / Hertfordshire Police / Sexual Abuse (Historic allegations) / Jailed for 12 years
30. / 5th Jan 2015 / PC Leigh Brightman / Hertfordshire Police / Charged with Rape / Jailed for four years
31. / 22nd Dec 2014 / Sgt Nick Lidstone / Cambridgeshire Police / Rape & Child sex attacks / Jailed for 14 ½ years
32. / 5th Dec 2014 / PC Kevin Duffy / Avon & Somerset / Charged with misconduct / Jailed for 10 months
33. / 20th Nov 2014 / Sgt Stephen Phillips / South Wales Police / Charged with theft / Jailed for 2 years
34. / 20th Nov 2014 / PC Michael Stokes / South Wales Police / Charged with theft / Jailed for 2 years
35. / 10th Oct 2014 / PC Jamie Davies / South Wales Police / Perverting Course of Justice / Jailed for six months
36. / 11th Sept 2014 / DC Tracy Taylor / Cumbria Police / Charged with fraud / Jailed for eight months
37. / 28th Aug 2014 / PC Kevin Dwyer / Greater Manchester Police / Outraging public decency / Five year sexual offence order
38. / 28th Aug 2014 / Daniel Cookson / South Yorkshire Police / Causing 15 yr old to engage in sexual activity / Jailed for eighteen months
39. / 15th Aug 2014 / John Travis / Greater Manchester Police / Rape and sexual assault / Jailed for 17 years
40. / 25th July 2014 / Griffith Barker / Merseyside Police / Historic Sex abuse / Jailed for 12 years
41. / 24th July 2014 / PC Michael Martin / Merseyside Police / Misconduct & Fraud / Jailed for 18 months
42. / 7th July 2014 / Alan Martin / Nottinghamshire Police / “historic sex offences” / Jailed for six years
43. / 6th June 2014 / PC Timothy Edwards / Metropolitan Police / Sold stories to newspapers / Jailed for two years
44. / 3rd May 2014 / PC Adam Rushton / Staffordshire Police / Sex acts whilst on duty / Jailed for three years
45. / 1st April 2014 / PC Ian Langford / West Mercia Police / Misconduct / Jailed for 18 months
46. / 31st Jan 2014 / Insp Colin Andrews / Humberside Police / Witness intimidation /assault / Jailed for 12 months
47. / 14th Jan 2014 / Lee Kershaw / Humberside Police / “Six counts of rape” / Jailed for 3 years
48. / 11th Jan 2014 / PC Keith Wallis / Metropolitan Police / Misconduct / Jailed for 12 months
49. / 10th Dec 2013 / PC Chris Semak / West Midlands / Sex with 14 year old girl / Jailed for six years
50. / 18th Nov 2013 / Sgt Mick Defries / British Transport Police / Charged with child sex offences / Jailed for two years
51. / 13th Nov 2013 / PC Martin McElvenna / Thames Valley Police / Charged with Misconduct / Jailed for eighteen months
52. / 7th Nov 2013 / DC Daniel Withnell / Greater Manchester / Planting a shotgun / Jailed for four years
53. / 23rd March 2016 / PC Vinod Dahiya / West Mercia Police / Death by dangerous driving / Jailed for 6 years 8 months
54. / 21st Oct 2013 / PC Hannah Notley / Essex Police / Misconduct over rape crime / Jailed for four months
55. / 17th Oct 2013 / PC Byron Thomas / South Wales Police / Perverting course of justice / Jailed for six weeks
56. / 16th Oct 2013 / PC Jonathan Webb / South Yorkshire Police / Stole £23,000 from widow 94 / Jailed for six years
57. / 7th Oct 2013 / Sgt Sanjay Rai / Metropolitan Police / Downloading indecent images / Jailed for six months
58. / 16th Sept 2013 / PC Jordan Powell / West Mercia Police / Sex with domestic violence victim / Jailed for 15 months
59. / 13th Sept 2013 / DS Darren McCabe / Metropolitan Police / Perverting course of justice / Jailed for six months
60. / 10th Sept 2013 / DC Tim Hemmings / Metropolitan Police / Stole £800 from Police station / Jailed for twelve weeks
61. / 3rd Sept 2013 / DC Jason Butler / Avon and Somerset Police / Perverting course of justice / Jailed for six months
62. / 15th Aug 2013 / DC Jeffrey Howard Davies / South Wales Police / Sexual Assault while on duty / Jailed for three years
63. / 23rd May 2013 / Danny Bryant / North Devon Police / Indecent Assault against boys / Jailed for 25 years
64. / 3rd May 2013 / PC Matthew Fisher / North Yorkshire Police / Sexual Assault / Jailed for fifteen months
65. / 26th April 2013 / Sgt James Bowes / Sussex Police / Selling information to the Sun / Jailed for ten months
66. / 25th April 2013 / WPC Rebecca Swanston / Hampshire Police / ‘Disclosing info to criminals’ / Jailed for three years
67. / 20th April 2013 / PC Osman Iqbal / West Midlands Police / Managing brothel/drug supply offences / Jailed for seven years
68. / 3rd April 2013 / PC Eileen Arthurs / Kent Police / Misconduct / Jailed for 2 and a half years
69. / 27th Mar 2013 / Jeffrey Lake / Lancashire Police / “Sex offences and child cruelty” (Historic allegations) / Jailed for 18 years
70. / 15th Mar 2013 / PC Lee Wilcox / South Yorkshire Police / Sex with a vulnerable woman / Jailed for nine months
71. / 9th Mar 2013 / DC Nicholas Mcfadden / West Yorkshire Police / Stealing drugs and re-selling them / Jailed for 23 years
72. / 11th Feb 2013 / CI Tanya Brookes / Surrey Police / £11,000 fraud / Jailed for 2 and half years
73. / 23rd Jan 2013 / DCI April Casburn / Metropolitan Police / Selling info to News of the world newspaper / Jailed for fifteen months
74. / 7th Dec 2012 / PC Gary Donnelly / North Wales Police / Indecent assault/Attempted Rape / Jailed for 18 months
75. / 6th Dec 2012 / PC Paul Baker / Metropolitan Police / Misconduct in Public Office / Jailed for eight months
76. / 9th Nov 2012 / PC Michael Turner / Metropolitan Police / Perverting course of justice / Jailed for six months
77. / 23rd Oct 2012 / PC Robert Kirk / Nottinghamshire Police / Misconduct / Jailed for eighteen months
78. / 12th Sept 2012 / PC Ryan Coleman Farrow / Metropolitan Police / Falsifying Police records / Jailed for sixteen months
79. / 11th Sept 2012 / PC Andrew Smith / Warwickshire Police / Supplying Drugs / Jailed for eight months
80. / 28th Aug 2012 / PC Matthew Cherry / Dorset Police / Punched Ex-partner in stomach in attempt to cause miscarriage / Jailed for ten years
81. / 10th Aug 2012 / PC Simon Jones / Nottinghamshire Police / Had sex with vulnerable women / Jailed for two years
82. / 14th April 2012 / Peter Kirk / Metropolitan Police / Rape and Sexual assault (Historic allegations) / Jailed for 14 years
83. / 16th March 2012 / PC Andrew Barber / Suffolk Police / Rape of a teenage girl / Jailed for 8 years
84. / 14th March 2012 / PC Dominic Griffiths / Greater Manchester / Falsified evidence in a rape case / Jailed for eight months
85. / 6th March 2012 / PC Peter Jee / Greater Manchester / Sex with vulnerable woman whilst on duty / Jailed for Two Years
86. / 16th Feb 2012 / PC Rachel Hewitt / North Yorkshire Police / Charged with Fraud / Jailed for 18 months
The information provided in this response is accurate as of 16 June 2017, and has been authorised for release by:
Catherine Feast
Head of Communications
Police Federation of England and Wales
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