WPC earned £100 an hour as a prostitute
A POLICEWOMAN was led sobbing to a prison cell yesterday after she admitted selling herself as a £100-an-hour escort.
Vicky Thorne advertised her services on a now-closed internet website called Notorious Girls. She used the pseudonym Kelly.
Posing in skimpy underwear, she described herself as “very eager to please”, although clients were warned she would not wear uniforms at their meetings.
Thorne, 28, was arrested last August by officers from her own force who had co-ordinated a year-long investigation into alleged organised prostitution in northern England.
She was among eight women and six men held when police from five forces staged a series of raids. Thorne, of Washington, Tyne and Wear, was immediately suspended by Northumbria Police.
Yesterday she appeared in the dock at Newcastle Crown Court to admit a charge of misconduct in a public office.
Sobbing throughout the hearing, she spoke only to plead guilty when the charge was put to her.
Friends and family members in the public gallery also broke down after Judge John Evans told her: “You must remain in custody.”
Thorne, who was based at Houghton-le-Spring police station, has now left the force.
She appeared in the dock alongside six other defendants from Scotland, Tyneside and Manchester, who face prostitution charges.
Judge Evans told Thorne she would be sentenced at the outcome of the trial of the other defendants in July.