Hacking: corrupt Yard officer found guilty of trying to sell information to NotW He said: "The defendent must understand that given the jury's verdict I must have in mind an imediate custodial sentence." He wishes to hear from the social worker of her child, adopted in 2011, before sentencing. Speaking afterwards, Detective Chief Inspector Gordon Briggs said, who is overall charge of Operations Weeting, Elveden and Tuleta, said: "It is a great disappointment that a detective chief inspector in counter-terrorism command should have abused her position in this way. There is no place for corrupt officers or staff in the Metropolitan Police Service. We hope this prosecution demonstrates that. Leaking or in this case trying to sell confidential information to journalists for personal gain will not be tolerated. There may be occasions where putting certain information into the public domain - so-called whistle-blowing - can be justified; this was not one of them. In this case, DCI Casburn proactively approached the News of the World, the very newspaper being investigated, to make money. She betrayed the service, and let down her colleagues, the hardworking, honest police officers, who make up the vast majority of the Met. Fortunately, this type of behaviour is rare but we hope today's verdict shows the public can have confidence that the MPS holds itself to account. During her trial the jury had been told that Casburn called the News of the World on Sep 11, 2010, and told a reporter that Andy Coulson, the former editor of the News of the World and the then director of communications at Downing Street, was one of four people under investigation. A memo about the conversation which the reporter emailed to his boss said the officer wanted to "sell us inside info" about the hacking investigation. She had been told the previous day that officers from counter-terrorism command would be seconded to a new phone-hacking inquiry launched as a result of an article in the New York Times which alleged that hacking was more widespread than the one reporter and one private detective jailed in 2007. Prosecutor Mark Bryant-Heron had earlier told Southwark Crown Court that DCI Casburn was in charge of the National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit within the Yard's SO15 counter-terrorism command at the time of the alleged offence. Mr Bryant-Heron said Mr Wood "offered to sell information to the News of the World" about Operation Varek, a review of a 2006 investigation into phone-hacking which had been launched by Assistant Commissioner John Yates as a result of allegations made in an article in the New York Times.