A corrupt former police officer wept today as she was jailed for using police computers ‘like Google’ to pass on intelligence to her drug baron ex-lover.

Former GMP constable Katie Murray was sent down for two years and nine months as a judge told her she had ‘disgraced the reputation of the vast majority of serving police officers’.

Her sister Lindsey Murray, described as ‘a habitual gossip’, was also jailed for six months after she shared confidential information on the Dale Cregan investigation from her sister on Facebook.

Both women mouthed ‘I love you’ to people in the public gallery at Minshull Street Crown Court as they were led down to cells.

Katie Murray, 30, of Dunkirk Street in Droylsden, and hospital worker Lindsey Murray, 33, were both found guilty of conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public office at earlier hearings.

Katie Murray’s former partner, Jason Lloyd, an associate of Dale Cregan, was jailed for 15 years for his part in the conspiracy plus drugs and firearms offences.

Lloyd, aged 44 and said in court to be a dad of ten, was heard to exert ‘a curious power’ over the other defendants in the case.

He had run a drugs factory hidden at Weir Mill in Stockport town centre where cannabis was found with a street value up to £500,000.

Katie Murray had passed on vital information to Lloyd, of Peregrine Close in Droylsden, about possible police raids and was said to have used police computer systems ‘as if she was accessing Google’ to follow the progress of investigations.

She also leaked information about Dale Cregan - moments after his murder of police officers Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone.

Judge Jonathan Foster QC, sentencing, said he believed Murray’s integrity had been compromised through her connection with Lloyd since 2004 - a year after she joined GMP.

Three other associates of Lloyd were also sentenced for their part in the cannabis factory, run from 2011 until a police raid in Oct 2013.

Craig Clarke, 31, described as Lloyd’s ‘lackey’ was jailed for three years, four months after pleading guilty to his role in the cannabis factory, which the court heard included photographs of him ‘merrily at work at a grinding machine’.

He was given a further two years, eight months for possession of ammunition

Dale Dickenson, 31, of Downton Road, Stalybridge, convicted of his involvement in drug production, was given a six-month sentence suspended for 18 months, 250 hours’ unpaid work, an 18-month community order and ordered to pay costs of £2,000.

Saicha Dunne, 21, found guilty of conspiring to sell around around 1kg of a class B drug with Lloyd, was given an eight-month sentence suspended for eight months, 100 hours’ unpaid work and ordered to attend a rehabilitation programme.