Ex-detectives who disclosed that legal pornography was found on Damian Green’s office computer were in “flagrant breach” of their code of conduct, a former attorney general has said.<\/p>\n
Dominic Grieve said their actions smacked of the “police state”.<\/p>\n
However, a former chief constable told the BBC the information was in the public interest.<\/p>\n
First Secretary of State Mr Green denies watching or downloading pornography on his computer.<\/p>\n
Tory MPs, including Brexit Secretary David Davis, have backed Mr Green – effectively Theresa May’s second-in-command – saying it was wrong for such claims to emerge through the media.<\/p>\n
The allegations were first raised last month by former Met assistant commissioner Bob Quick, who led a 2008 inquiry into Home Office leaks which saw Mr Green’s Commons office being searched.<\/p>\n
He made the claims after the Cabinet Office launched an investigation into accusations of inappropriate behaviour by Mr Green towards journalist Kate Maltby, which the MP has described as “completely false”.<\/p>\n
‘Very worrying’<\/p>\n
On Friday, retired Scotland Yard detective Neil Lewis told BBC News “thousands” of thumbnail images of legal pornography had been found on Mr Green’s parliamentary computer in 2008.<\/p>\n
Davis ‘warns No 10 not to sack Green’<\/p>\n
‘Thousands’ of porn images on MP’s computer<\/p>\n
Scotland Yard has confirmed its department for professional standards was examining allegations that Mr Lewis had disclosed confidential information.<\/p>\n
And speaking on BBC Newsnight, Mr Grieve described the decision by the officers to release such information from a police investigation as “very worrying”.<\/p>\n
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