Drugs court case witness files found at tip.

Another day another data leak, well thrown away in fucking skip!

A bundle of sensitive files linked to a massive police drugs bust have been found dumped at a Lancashire tip.

A probe has been launched after more than 100 "restricted" statements from police officers and forensic experts were discovered lying in a giant bin at Farington Moss recycling centre near Leyland.

They reveal personal details about suspects and witnesses linked to Operation Montrose, run by Merseyside Police from 2004, which led to 59 drug traffickers being locked up for a combined 340 years.

They detail how police seized items including brown powders, bundles of cash and mobile phones across the country.

The papers provide information linked to a Liverpool Crown Court case involving Liverpool gang leader Paul Hannon and eight others, including driver Terence Sims, of Clifton Avenue, Leyland, who is now serving a 16-year jail sentence....

I wonder what will be next...

Certain MP's have been arguing that data loss on the part of the state and if this loss was done by either the police or the courts then that comes under the control of the state; has had no fiscal cost to the public.

Well that is as may be however the crowing MP's who seem to think that this somehow lets the government off the hook, should consider both the duty of care to keep our information safe and secure, as well as the prospect that in this case someone could have passed the information onto criminals.

Mind you I am sure that should that have happened, our MP's and ministers in Labour would have been claiming that it was nothing to do with them.

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