Jail for the cop who nicked cash from jet passengers

A rogue detective sergeant who pocketed more than £83,000 in cash seized from passengers travelling through Heathrow has been jailed for four-and-a-half years. Michael Harrington, 46, a serving financial investigator in the Met’s Economic Crime Unit (ECU), stole cash taken from 16 passengers in a five-year crime spree. He was based at Heathrow and as part of the Criminal Finance Team regularly seized large amounts of cash from people travelling out of the country. The money should have been seized…