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Penalty in UK for email interception

Clifford Stanford, the founder of Demon Internet and Redbus and Codefendant George Liddell, a former employee of Redbus, pleaded guilty to email interception. Both men were sentenced to six months imprisonment, suspended for two years. Stanford was also fined £20,000 and ordered to pay £7,000 towards prosecution costs.

Stanford and Liddell were charged under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 with intercepting emails belonging to John Porter, son of Dame Shirley Porter and former chairman of Redbus.

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Written by musi on October 20th, 2009