Worker admits selling Sandhurst secrets to newspaper

A PHARMACY assistant from South Yorkshire who worked at Sandhurst military training centre has admitted misconduct in a public office for selling stories to a newspaper.
By The Newsroom
Published 30th Aug 2013, 13:30 BST
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Tracy Bell, 35, from Goldthorpe, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to one count of the offence between October 17 2005 and July 7 2006, during which time she received around £1,250 for five articles published in the Sun newspaper.

At the time she was a Ministry of Defence employee working as a pharmacy assistant at Sandhurst Medical Centre.

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The Royal Military Academy near Sandhurst in Berkshire is where army officers receive initial training.

Bell was allowed to sit at the back of the packed courtroom outside the dock as she entered her plea.

The charge was that “between October 17 2005 and July 7 2006, whilst acting as a public official, namely a pharmacy assistant, Tracy Bell willfully and without reasonable excuse or justification, misconducted herself to such a degree as to amount to an abuse of the public’s trust in that office”.

The court was told that Bell will be sentenced on date in October that has yet to be fixed, and she was released on bail until then.