article_snippet: Helen Jones, 32, a former Pc with Merseyside Police, took footage by 'flashing Jones warrant card' to the manageress of a bank which was intended to be used to extort money from the Liverpool star.
article_snippet: Judge Baker Judge Baker said while Jones may not have known who, eventually, the CCTV would be passed to or for what purpose, the CCTV had caused Liverpool's Gerrard and Liverpool's Gerrard friend Lee McPartland 'serious personal embarrassment', and damaged the reputation of Merseyside Police.
article_snippet: Jones Jones planned to use the CCTV to extort money from Liverpool's Gerrard, pictured with Jones wife Alex, who was filmed acting as a peacemaker when friends got involved in a bar brawl .
article_snippet: Jones, formerly of Formby, now living in Chatham, Kent, did not deny improperly using Jones status as a police officer to get the CCTV and admitted misconduct in a public office but claimed Jones was doing a favour for a friend.
article_snippet: Jones said the CCTV was secured to use the CCTV 'possibly as a lever to cause Mr Gerrard to pay money to suppress the CCTV or, at the very least, to use the CCTV in a way which would potentially cause embarrassment, as has in fact occurred'.
article_snippet: Jones, who joined the police in 2005, was off-duty and on a career break when Jones went to the Lloyds branch in Formby and took the footage, which the prosecution claimed was for 'criminal purposes'.
article_snippet: Earlier the court heard Jones got Jones hands on the CCTV to allow Mr Lloyd or another person, to use the CCTV as a 'lever' to cause Mr Gerrard to pay money to suppress the CCTV or use the CCTV in a way to cause Mr Gerrard potential embarrassment.
article_snippet: Crime scene: The Merseyside Police officer took the footage, which the prosecution claimed was for 'criminal purposes' by 'flashing The Merseyside Police officer warrant card' to the manageress of this Formby bank .
article_snippet: Richard Howarth said the actual CCTV, which has never been made public, was a 'side issue' in Jones' admitted offence of misconduct.
article_snippet: Mr Gerrard's lawyers and Liverpool FC became involved and police called in with Gerrard's lawyers and Liverpool FC investigation leading to Jones''s arrest and Jones' resignation from the police.
article_snippet: Jones', mitigating for Jones, said: 'Roderick Jones, mitigating for Jones are dealing with a single event in which a serving police officer on a career break took a decision to essentially, catastrophically bend the rules to breaking point and in doing so, broke Gerrard's lawyers and Liverpool FC. '
highlights_snippet: Helen Jones, 33, used Helen Jones warrant card to get footage from a nearby bank .
  
highlights_snippet: WPC took CCTV on behalf of potential blackmailers of Steven Gerrard .
  