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October 9, 2015

Prison officer who sold Daily Mirror stories about Baby P mother Tracey Connelly is jailed

A former prison officer who sold tips to the Daily Mirror about the mother of the murdered child known as Baby P has been jailed for 12 weeks.

Joseph de Souza, 51, was paid £950 for information that led to four stories in the tabloid, three of them about Tracey Connelly's time behind bars at HMP Holloway.

She was jailed for allowing her 17-month-old son to be tortured to death.

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