Former police sergeant who offered Katie Price story to News of the World jailed And he passed on details of a psychic who had contacted police about a search for bodies in two former Brighton homes in 2010 of serial killer Peter Tobin, but was not paid. He is the fourth police officer imprisoned after prosecutions under the Met Police's Operation Elveden, which is investigating inappropriate payments from journalists to public officials. Jailing him for 10 months, Mr Justice Fulford told Bowes: "You have made available to the press confidential information concerning children. Your explanation is that it was a foolish attempt by you to be in some part associated with notorious or high-profile cases. Bowes had abused his position of trust and undermined the relationship the police had with the public, he said. Mark Bryant-Heron, prosecuting, told the court that Bowes had access to the police computer to get information about three incidents in 2010. He was dismissed from the Sussex police force after his arrest. Australian-born media tycoon Murdoch, 82, was forced to shut down the News of the World in 2011 after revelations that its journalists illegally accessed the voicemail messages of a murdered schoolgirl as well as hundreds of public figures. Three other ex-police officers and a former prison officer have also been jailed for selling or offering stories to The Sun and News of the World. Police investigating phone hacking and bribery by journalists have arrested dozens of people since the News of the World was shut down, including Prime Minister David Cameron's media chief Andy Coulson, a former editor of the paper. The scandal sparked a judicial inquiry into the ethics of the press and an overhaul of newspaper regulation in Britain.