'The defendant provided material to third parties rather than directly to the criminal fraternity.' 'Investigations by South Wales Police identified the case to which that document referred and the very limited number of individuals who had had access to that document and led her to this defendant.

'That had been sent from one criminal to another, both of those criminals were involved in multi-kilo trafficking of Class A drugs. Mr Temkin said: 'As part of an EncroChat conversation the National Crime Agency discovered photographs of a sensitive and privileged police document.

He said the offending came to light after intelligence officers broke into an encrypted EncroChat messaging system used by criminals. 'Many of the cases accessed by the defendant were handled by the Crown Prosecution Service complex case unit, which deals with the most serious, sensitive or complex cases, the defendant has never worked in that unit and should have been inaccessible to her.' He added: 'In turn that same sensitive information found its way into the criminal fraternity.' Mr Temkin said although it could not be proved that many of the searches were passed on to criminals but twice 'did disseminate sensitive information to third parties.' 'She did so by unauthorised access to the Crown Prosecution Service computer system and the Crown Court digital system.' Mr Temkin, said: 'The defendant abused her position to research and obtain sensitive information about prominent criminals and organised crime investigations in South Wales. Police then searched the 'very limited number of people' who would have had access to the document and were led to Simpson. The form contained details of police tactics and led criminals to change up their tactics in a bid to 'avoid detection.' Mr Temkin said a second case where information found its way to criminals involved documents relating to convicted drug dealer Jerome Nunes (pictured) after he was jailed

Defending Taylor by Miranda Kenneally