Former policewoman Jenna-Lee Hughes betrayed by a taste for bad boys Jenna-Lee Hughes inside the Darlinghurst Court complex awaiting sentencing / Pic: John Grainger Source: The Daily Telegraph Jenna-Lee Hughes was a swimwear model before she joined the police / Pic: www.modelmayhem.com Source: The Daily Telegraph SHE only ever wanted the boys to like her. But Jenna-Lee Hughes' love for bad men brought her unstuck when she provided secret police information to her boyfriend to give to his criminal associates. The swimsuit model turned constable yesterday sobbed as she was sentenced to at least a year behind bars for criminal misconduct. The unemployed 25-year-old shook her head as District Court judge Mark Marien branded her a liar who deliberately tried to cover up the seriousness of her wrongdoing. Hughes was serving with Surry Hills police in 2010 when she looked up information on Alex Macris for her then-boyfriend Neil Cummins, who was working as a bodyguard for Kings Cross identity John Ibrahim. The Ibrahim family thought Macris' brother John was behind the near-fatal shooting of Fadi Ibrahim in 2009, the court heard. Fadi, his brother Michael and their associate Rodney "Goldie" Atkinson were later cleared on charges of plotting to kill John Macris. Hughes claimed she did not know Macris's name until she looked up a car registration number Cummins gave her and only realised she might be checking out a "bad person" when the system flashed a warning. "I was young, impressionable, immature and stupid, and I wanted these boys to like me," she previously told the court. Judge Marien yesterday said he was convinced Hughes knew both who Macris was and why Cummins wanted information on him. "When she gave (the details) to Cummins she was aware of the real possibility that the information would be passed on by (him) to criminal elements," he said. As a result of her passing on that information to Cummins, (she knew) some physical harm might befall Alex Macris or some members of the Macris family. In 2008 and 2009, Hughes used the police system to look up information for another boyfriend, Jack Sweeney, also known as Jack Moran, who had stolen a car with an accomplice. Hughes knew Sweeney was behind the theft but, instead of reporting him, handed over confidential details about police investigations into the crime. She pleaded guilty last year to misconduct and lying to the Police Integrity Commission during a 2011 inquiry. Hughes had also kept secret her long history of mental illness to get into the force in 2007, which Judge Marien described as another "serious deception." She shrunk away from Corrective Services officers before they led her into custody, with her father Mike yelling out as she was taken away. "There are bastards out there doing all sorts of damage and they get nothing," he said.