Seven years for bent security worker

Romford

A corrupt security worker who took thousands of pounds in bribes from dangerous criminals so they could escape from their ankle tags has been jailed for seven years. Martin Crean, 49, charged 37 suspects, including convicted rapists, £500 each to fiddle the monitoring devices that were fixed to their ankles. Capita won the six-year £400m tagging contract from the government in 2014, and Crean was employed by the firm’s Electronic Monitoring Service (EMS). In December 2015, he told his employers…

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