Ex-PC in court over relationships with criminals

A former police constable accused of having intimate relationships with four criminals and accessing their computer records has appeared in court.

Kayleigh Moye, who is also facing a drugs supply charge, appeared at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Wednesday and was granted bail until a further hearing at the city's Crown court on 11 February.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct has said Moye, of Quinton in Birmingham, is alleged to have accessed information about four known criminals.

The 28-year-old faces four charges of misconduct while in a public office relating to four named individuals alleged to have been committed between September 2022 and December 2023.

The charges allege that she accessed "confidential information held within West Midlands Police computer systems" and engaged in "intimate" relationships which she failed to notify to her employer.

She also faces three drugs charges - one of being concerned in the supply of a cannabis on 20 November 2023, and two of possessing cannabis on dates in December 2023 and February 2024.

Moye, who became distressed at the end of a six-minute hearing before a district judge, did not indicate pleas to any of the charges after being told they could only be dealt with at the Crown court.

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