Kadiri [2017] EWCA Crim 2667

The appellant was an employee of HMRC, she pleaded guilty to misconduct in a public office and wrongful disclosure of information. She accessed personal information at work for her husband’s new partner and her family, she also passed information to a private investigator who she engaged. She was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment.

Held: there were powerful reasons in the mitigation to lead to the conclusion the sentence should have been suspended. The sentence was quashed and substituted for sentences of 4 months concurrent suspended for 12 months.