Two people “driven by morbid curiosity” who accessed CCTV footage of footballer Emiliano Sala‘s post-mortem test have been jailed.
CCTV firm manager Sherry Bray, 49, and her employee Christopher Ashford, 62, admitted illegally accessing mortuary footage of the striker’s body. Sala had been flying from Nantes after just signing for Cardiff City when the plane he was on crashed into the sea.
Judge Peter Crabtree jailed Bray for 14 months and Ashford for five months. At Swindon Crown Court the judge said the offences were “driven by morbid curiosity” and in Ashford’s case, “forensic science”.
The judge said they had taken place within “a culture” at the company where staff watched post-mortem examinations even though they “had no justification to do so”. Wiltshire Police started investigating when an image appearing to show Sala’s body appeared on social media.
On 18 February, officers investigated Camera Security Services (CSS) in Chippenham, Wiltshire, and found the post-mortem test in Bournemouth had been viewed live on 7 February and then played back twice on 8 February.
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