Jamie Scott successfully prosecuted at trial a man accused of stalking the police officers investigating him. Following a ten-day trial at Stafford Crown Court, the defendant was convicted of attempted child sex offences, aggravated stalking and perverting the course of justice.
The defendant had been lured into exchanging sexual messages with an undercover officer. Once he was charged with those offences, the defendant embarked on a sustained online smear campaign against the officer investigating him that included publishing private photographs of the officer and his ex-wife online. At trial, the defendant failed to argue that he was trying to expose police corruption.
The case attracted the attention of the media:
The defendant will be sentenced in September.