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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/policeman-jailed-for-77-fraud.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Detective Constable Daren Pooley has been jailed after defrauding the Metropolitan Police out of thousands of pounds" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-policeman-jailed-for-77-fraud.jpg" alt="Detective Constable Daren Pooley has been jailed after defrauding the Metropolitan Police out of thousands of pounds"/></a></p>
<p>A counter-terrorism officer has been jailed after being convicted of defrauding the Metropolitan Police out of thousands of pounds in a property scam during the July 7 bombings investigation.</p>
<p>Detective Constable Daren Pooley, 41, took the opportunity to make a &#8220;quick profit&#8221; out of his employers while on a long-term deployment to Leeds following the terrorist attacks on London in 2005.</p>
<p>He was jailed for three years at London&#8217;s Southwark Crown Court, while his wife Nicola, 38, who was also found guilty of conspiracy to defraud following a three-week trial last month, was sentenced to 36 weeks&#8217; imprisonment suspended for 18 months.</p>
<p>The conspiracy involved over-charging the Met for apartment rentals during their stay to the tune of £93,000 &#8211; although the actual loss to the force would have been lower due to costs such as utility bills, the court heard.</p>
<p>At first, the Met officers sent to Leeds were divided into two teams and put up in hotels at a cost of around £3,000 a month per officer, the court heard.</p>
<p>But, to save money, the teams were later moved to apartments. In May 2006, one team of officers moved into a block of serviced apartments in the Riverside West area of Leeds at a cost of £2,000 per month.</p>
<p>Pooley had by then met his future wife when she was staying in the same hotel and started a relationship with her.</p>
<p>Mrs Pooley&#8217;s brother-in-law, Stephen Butler, 59, ran a company called Citizen Group. Butler arranged for a lettings firm to provide four apartments, which were smaller and not fully serviced, in the Clarence Dock area of the city, into which Pooley and his team moved.</p>
<p>The court heard that Citizen Group charged the Met £1,950 a month for each apartment but paid only £650 in rent, with the conspirators pocketing the difference each month.</p>
<p>Mrs Pooley&#8217;s brother-in-law, Butler, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud at an earlier hearing. He was sentenced to 12 months in prison.</p>
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