Cop cleared of fraud

A former police union boss accused of fiddling his travel expense claims has been cleared of fraud. Det Con Dennis Weeks, 45, was said to have claimed expenses for journeys he had never made or clawed back car mileage payments for trips he made by train. Prosecutors claimed the officer was rumbled by mobile phone records showing Weeks ‘carefully hugging the route of the train’ when he had claimed to have travelled by car. In his role as deputy general…