Police Prostitute Jailed
Date: 21-Sep-2009
A woman cop who earned £1,000 a week working as a hooker was jailed for 15 months today, WPC Vikki Thorne, 29, used the name Kelly to advertise herself on a website called Notorious Girls.
She told prospective clients she was happy to wear thigh-length boots and take part in role play – but refused to romp in Uniforms.
The pretty brunette specialized in raunchy lapdances before having sex with clients at their homes or in hotel rooms, just hour after she had finished a shift as a beat bobby.
She was rumbled when a colleague with Northumbria Police became suspicious after hearing her chatting on the phone to the agency boss.
The professional standards department launched an investigation and discovered she had been accessing the Police National Computer to check up on local vice bosses.
Judge John Evans jailed her at Newcastle Crown Court today and told her: “You have brought shame on Northumbria Police. The publicity attached to this case will blight your life for a very long time.”
Thorne joined the cops in June 2002 but four years later started a second job as a hooker.
She told probation officers after her arrest she worked as a prostitute to earn extra cash and because it provided “interesting social opportunities.”
Prosecutor Caroline Godwin told Newscastle Crown Court: “Vikki Thorne joined Northumbria Police June 2002.
“She should have had a bright and promising future but she chose to breach the trust that had been placed in her as a police constable and was effectively leading a double life.
“She was operating as a police officer and was then working as a prostitute.
“She became corrupted.” She first joined an escort agency in September 2006 and then moved to Notorious Girls in February 2007, refusing to see men from the Sunderland area where she was based as a WPC.
Agency boss Neil Lock, 28, met most of his new escorts at the Pitcher and Piano bar on Newcastle’s Quayside. He interviewed them and they then signed a contract ageing which services they were prepared to offer clients.
Once the girls had joined the agency Lock’s wife Natalie, 28, handled their bookings from their home in Galashiels in the Borders. The girls worked at brothels in private and rented houses across the North East as well as visiting punters at their own homes and in hotels. Some of the girls also worked at a brothel the firm ran in Bury, Greater Manchester, called NG House. Thorne worked just in the North East, earning up to £1000 a week entertaining three or four men a night for three nights a week. The businessman’s daughter earned so much cash she drove a swanky Audi TT sports car.
She was arrested in August last year when colleagues from Northumbria Police carried out a string of raids. She refused to co-operate, the only person she confided in was a fellow officer she was having a relationship with but she just told him” “I don’t know why I did it.”
Neil Lock insisted he ran a legitimate PR firm specializing in adult entertainment. He told cops his firm turned over £2,000 a week but the true figure was a whopping £15,000 a week.
Lock eventually admitted prostitution offences, aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office, possession of a shotgun without a licence and possession of a class ‘A’ drug. He was jailed for four years today. His wife Natalie also admitted prostitution offences. Her 51-week jail term was suspended for two years.
She has since split from Neil and has moved to Devon with their two children. Three other defendants – including Neil’s dad Nigel – received fines from prostitution offences. Thorne, who was sacked after her arrest, will serve just half of her sentence less the 162 days she has spent on remand meaning she will be out in around two months.
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