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November 4, 2015

Former prison officer jailed for being Sun source on George Michael stories

By PA Media Lawyer

A former prison officer has been jailed for 12 months for selling stories about George Michael's time behind bars to The Sun.

The troubled singer had been sentenced to eight weeks in 2010 after he was found slumped at the wheel of his crashed car.

He spent the last part of his sentence at the category C jail, HMP Highpoint, where Amanda Watts, from Suffolk, worked as a prison officer.

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