Pubdate: Fri, 05 Apr 2002
Source: Independent  (UK)
Copyright: 2002 Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd.
Contact:  http://www.independent.co.uk/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/209
Author: Ian Herbert
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/corrupt.htm (Corruption)

DETECTIVE JAILED FOR CORRUPTION LOSES MOST OF PENSION

A former detective who conspired to pervert the course of justice in 
return for UKP20,000 from one of Europe's biggest drug traffickers 
has been stripped of most of his pension and ordered to forfeit 
UKP200,000 in other early retirement payments.

Elmore Davies, a former detective chief inspector for Merseyside 
Police, was the most senior policeman to be convicted of corruption 
for almost three decades when a jury at Nottingham Crown Court 
decided four years ago that he provided confidential information to a 
crime syndicate headed by Curtis Warren, a drug dealer said to have 
amassed a fortune of UKP180m.

Davies, who was released from prison last April after serving three 
years of a five-year term, had keenly anticipated his pension after 
nearly 30 years' service. At his trial it was revealed that he was 
hoping a back injury would enable him to retire "on a nice pension =F1 
UKP500 a week in my hand just for sitting on my extremely fat arse". 
He reckoned he could work as a security consultant on cruise liners =F1 
"UKP500 a week and all your keep and ale".

Despite his conviction at a trial in which he was described as "a 
bent copper stewed in corruption," his lawyers spent four hours 
pleading with Merseyside Police Authority, at a special meeting, to 
allow him to draw most of his UKP25,000 a year pension. But the 
committee ruled that 75 per cent of it would be permanently forfeited 
=F1 the maximum penalty permissible in law =F1 and he would only receive 
the amount he had paid in contributions.

Davies had been due to retire 13 weeks after his arrest. His 
solicitor, Tony Nelson, said his client was devastated and would 
appeal.
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