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IMHO
The Officer should have also been charged under the Official Secrets Act but the CPS have gone for the soft option of DPAct.
Yes he should have received a short term of imprisonment.
I think the regulations have now been changed and the years of Pension to which he has paid 11% of his gross wages towards cannot now be taken away.
If this is not the case Derbyshire Police have also bottled and allowed him to resign which clears the muck from their door step. What should have happened is that his resignation be refused, discipline and sack.
As for the Pension if your worked for BA for 40 years then smacked your boss because he called you a "Fat Cnut", getting you the sack, would it be fair for the BA Pension Fund to stop your pension and seize that money for the benefit of other pensioners. Now that would not be fair would it?
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