A senior U.K. police officer was found guilty on Thursday of trying to sell information to a U.K. tabloid, marking the first criminal conviction in the scandal that caught fire in July 2011.
April Casburn, who was in the Metropolitan Police’s counter-terrorist financing unit, offered confidential information relating to the phone-hacking investigation to the shuttered weekly tabloid News of the World in exchange for money, prosecutors said. She was convicted of misconduct in public office.