DETECTIVE TURNED SON INTO DEALER

A detective who recruited his son to pull off a drugs deal has been jailed.
Suspicious colleagues bugged William Jones, 47, for months during forbidden
contacts with a police informant who was involved in the drugs conspiracy.
At Harrow Crown Court on Friday Jones, of Ware, Herts, admitted conspiracy
to supply cannabis and willful misconduct in a public office. The former
Scotland Yard officer and father-of-three was jailed for three years and
nine months.

Jurors heard conversations were secretly taped in his police car as he
promised former robber Anselm Peries, 35, of Bushey, information about a
multi-million pound hold-up.

'Wicked behaviour' They then heard Jones briefing his son about a drugs
deal in which he wanted him to buy UKP 425 of cannabis resin from a house
linked to the informant and sell it in a pub.

When fellow officers investigated the detective's background they found he
had also indirectly accepted UKP 12,500 from Peries to help set up a cafe
in Borehamwood.

Judge Barrington Black said it had been deplorable to involve his close
family in the totally unprofessional and wicked behaviour. Jones, who
apologised for "losing the plot" after 22 years as a police officer, was
sentenced to two years and three months for the cannabis conspiracy and 18
months for misconduct.

Peries was jailed for a total of two-and-a-half years after pleading guilty
to the cannabis conspiracy as well as aiding and abetting Jones' misconduct.