By Gavin Mackintosh-
A CPS lawyer has been shamefully found guilty of using his work computer system to look up his ex-wife’s new partner after a break-up that ‘made Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor look like they got on well’.
Disgraced Scott Ainge, 48, was today cleared of stalking his deputy district judge wife following an affair, but was embarrassingly convicted of three computer misuse offences after using the CPS system looked up details of convictions of her new partner, Andrew Thompson.
Jurors at Liverpool Crown Court heard Kate Ainge had revealed she had been having an affair in September 2016.
Prosecutors alleged that from then to January 2018, there were 43 incidents which amounted to Ainge tracking her movements, 23 incidents of him tracking her car, 54 threats by him to reveal highly personal information, 11 unwanted visits to her home, five episodes of him monitoring her Facebook page and one incident where he accessed her iPad.
Scott Ainge, 48, was cleared of stalking his deputy district judge ex-wife, but was convicted of using the CPS’ computer system to look-up whether her new partner had any convictions.
Scott Ainge, 48, was cleared of stalking his deputy district judge ex-wife, but was convicted of using the CPS’ computer system to look-up whether her new partner had any convictions
Mrs Ainge claimed that after she moved out of their home in Leyland, Lancashire, and back in with her parents, Ainge would visit and call her a ‘prostitute’ and ‘dirty little s***’.
He also told people she had bipolar disorder, despite a psychiatrist telling her she did not, the court heard.
Allan Compton, prosecuting, told the jury Ainge was ‘blinded by the desire’ to get back at his ex-wife.
He said: ‘Scott Ainge was actively cultivating fear because that was how he exerted pressure, that was how he got what he wanted.’ Ian Whitehurst, defending, said the jury had seen evidence of the breakdown of a marriage.
Ainge’s conviction has undoubtedly brought the professional office to disrepute. He doesn’t deserve to be working with a prosecution service.
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