article_snippet.sent: DC Ciara Campbell (pictured) was an officer at Lancaster CID.
article_snippet.sent: After Detective Constable Ciara Campbell broke up with police marksman Stuart Swarbrick, a ‘large number’ of photographs of Detective Constable Ciara Campbell new partner, a civilian police worker, were found on she iPad, a jury was told.
article_snippet.sent: A court heard DC Ciara Campbell also spied on PC Swarbrick's new girlfriend, Alice Coxhead, a civilian police support worker, 50 times using the system.
article_snippet.sent: However, A court was told that DC Ciara Campbell maintains DC Ciara Campbell was simply trying to ensure DC Ciara Campbell did not bump into or confront DC Ciara Campbell ex or DC Ciara Campbell new partner at work and wanted to ‘just get on with DC Ciara Campbell job’.
article_snippet.sent: The DC denies three counts of unlawfully obtaining personal data and eight offences of unauthorised access to computer material under the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
article_snippet.sent: The first two charges relate to DC Ciara Campbell accessing information on Lancashire police systems between 2010 and 2012 about a harassment dispute involving DC Ciara Campbell friend Amanda Holman, 54, and a woman named Rachel Lyne.
article_snippet.sent: The third charge against DC Ciara Campbell relates to DC Ciara Campbell checking on a defendant – Dean Harrison – who was accused of assaulting Ms Lyne.
article_snippet.sent: A court heard Dean Harrison had approached Holman to ask DC Ciara Campbell to be a witness.
article_snippet.sent: The first two charges relate to DC Ciara Campbell accessing information through incident and human resourcing databases about DC Ciara Campbell ex-partner, who is a Preston-based firearms officer, and DC Ciara Campbell new partner, who is based at Hutton police HQ.
article_snippet.sent: DC Ciara Campbell was arrested in March 2014 over the matters relating to Holman, but an examination of The defendant personal iPad which was seized by officers revealed pictures of Ms Coxhead, leading to a further probe.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Lowe said: 'As a result of inquiries the defendant's phone and iPad were seized and what's particularly significant is there were a large number of photographs obtained of Ms Coxhead. '
article_snippet.sent: Mr Lowe said DC Ciara Campbell had twice accessed information on friend Ms Holman but added The defendant may have done so out of 'some sort of misguided loyalty' to Holman.
article_snippet.sent: The jury heard DC Ciara Campbell also accessed the computer system in August 2012 in relation to an alleged assault on Ms Lyne by a man named Dean Harrison.
article_snippet.sent: Liverpool Crown Court (pictured) heard DC Ciara Campbell denies three counts of unlawfully obtaining personal data and eight offences of unauthorised access to computer material under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 .
article_snippet.sent: Liverpool Crown Court ( added DC Ciara Campbell had not wanted to bump into or confront DC Ciara Campbell ex or Liverpool Crown Court
article_snippet.sent: ( new partner at work and wanted to 'just get on with DC Ciara Campbell job'.
article_snippet.sent: Liverpool Crown Court ( said in the case of the third charge, the one in relation to the assault, DC Ciara Campbell just wanted to check DC Ciara Campbell would have no involvement in the assault case.
article_snippet.sent: Liverpool Crown Court ( added: 'The actions DC Ciara Campbell took were rational and sensible. '
article_snippet.sent: On the remaining counts it is said DC Ciara Campbell knew DC Ciara Campbell was not authorised to access that data. '
article_snippet.sent: DC Ciara Campbell says DC Ciara Campbell didn't know that at all, DC Ciara Campbell had many reasons to form the view that what DC Ciara Campbell was doing was perfectly acceptable.'
article_snippet.sent: Giving evidence, DC Les Clegg, of Lancashire police's anti-corruption team, said text messages between Holman and the defendant appeared to correspond to DC Ciara Campbell accessing information about Dean Harrison.
article_snippet.sent: In a later message, Holman had thanked DC Ciara Campbell and indicated DC Ciara Campbell would not be 'speaking to Holman' - said by the Crown to refer to Dean Harrison.
highlights_snippet.sent: DC Ciara Campbell, 43, 'used the police computer system to spy on her ex'
  
highlights_snippet.sent: DC Ciara Campbell denies three counts of unlawfully obtaining personal data and eight offences of unauthorised access to computer material .