Two police officers who moonlighted as private detectives have been convicted of bugging phones and hacking into computers on behalf of wealthy clients.
Jeremy Young and Scott Gelsthorpe set up Active Investigation Services and ran a service dubbed "Hackers Are Us".
One of their clients, waste millionaire Adrian Kirby, paid £47,000 for AIS to spy on environmental investigators.
Gelsthorpe, of Kettering, Northants, and Young, of Ilford, Essex, were convicted at Southwark Crown Court.
US millionaire Matthew Mellon was acquitted of spying on his ex-wife, Tamara, founder of the Jimmy Choo shoe company.
Mellon, 43, from Belgravia, central London, was found not guilty of one charge of conspiracy to modify computer material.
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