Jenna-Lee Hughes sentenced to 18 months

Swimsuit model turned cop Jenna-Lee Hughes sentenced to 18 months

Peter Bodkin 
The Daily Telegraph
March 28, 2013 12:06PM

A SWIMSUIT model turned cop who used a police database to get information on an underworld figure because she wanted men to like her has been ordered to spend at least a year behind bars.

Former constable Jenna-Lee Hughes, 25, this morning bowed her head and sobbed in the dock as a District Court judge delivered his sentence after branding her a liar.

In 2010 while serving with Surry Hills police Hughes looked up information on Mosman crime figure Alex Macris for her then-boyfriend Neil Cummins, who was working as a bodyguard for Kings Cross identity John Ibrahim.

The Ibrahim family thought Macris's brother John was behind the near-fatal shooting of Fadi Ibrahim outside his Castle Cove home, the court heard.

In 2008 and 2009 she had used the police system to look up information for another boyfriend, Jack Sweeney, also known as Jack Moran.

Hughes failed to report who was responsible for the theft, instead feeding information about the police investigation into the crime to her partner. 
She later pleaded guilty to four charges of misconduct and lying to the Police Integrity Commission during a 2011 probe into her wrongdoing.

During her sentence hearing, Hughes told Judge Mark Marien she didn't know Macris's name until she looked up his car registration details for Cummins.

"I was young, impressionable, stupid and I wanted these boys to like me," she said.

But Judge Marien today said he was convinced Hughes knew both who Macris was and why her boyfriend wanted details about him.

"When she gave it to Cummins she was aware of the real possibility that the information would be passed on by (him) to criminal elements," he said.

"As a result of her passing on that information to Cummins, (she knew) some physical harm might befall Alex Macris or some members of the Macris family."

Michael and Fadi Ibrahim were both cleared on charges of plotting to kill John Macris earlier this year.

Judge Marien said Hughes had "deliberately lied" to the court and he didn't believe she was sorry for her serious misconduct.

He sentenced her to a maximum of 18 months in prison with a one-year non-parole period.