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June 2, 2015updated 28 Jul 2015 3:28pm

Union ‘whistleblower’ who sold prison stories to Daily Mirror jailed after identity disclosed to police

By Dominic Ponsford

A prison service “whistleblower” paid for stories by the Daily Mirror was today jailed for 20 months after his identity was revealed to the Met Police.

The Old Bailey heard that Robert Norman, 54, was paid more than £10,000 for 40 story tips to reporter Stephen Moyes between April 2006 and May 2011.

This covered the time Moyes worked for the Daily Mirror and the News of the World.

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