Wednesday, August 5, 1998 Published at 18:27 GMT 19:27 UK
Police chief 'changed sides for money'
DCI Davies: Accused of helping the man who shot at his colleague
A police detective agreed to sell information about the prosecution of a man charged with the attempted murder of a colleague, using a star of the television show Gladiators as a go-between, a court has heard.
Detective Chief Inspector Elmore Davies, 50, of Merseyside police, was trapped after fellow officers agreed to bug his flat, Nottingham Crown Court was told.
Warren - currently in jail in Holland - was the brother-in-law of Philip Glennon Jr, who was accused of shooting a policeman outside a Liverpool nightclub two years ago.
Peter Joyce QC, prosecuting, told the court Mr Glennon fired a gun at a doorman and at PC Gary Titherington after being thrown out of the Venue nightclub in the city's Tuebrook area.
Glennon was charged with attempted murder.
The court heard that the case against DCI Davies was that he "did his best to undermine the prosecution of the man who had been charged with the attempted murder of a policeman from his own station".
Davies passed information about PC Titherington to the Curtis Warren gang via Gladiator Mike Ahearne - known to TV viewers by his stage-name "Warrior".
The jury heard that after a distinguished career Davies "did his best to undermine the prosecution of a policeman from his own station and he did it for money".
Ahearne, who Mr Joyce said the jury might recognise from TV, was "the conveyer, go-between, runner if you will, from his friend the chief inspector to the criminal gang who were seeking to get young Glennon off".
The jury heard that Ahearne agreed with Bray to supply information in return for money. Around March last year Bray gave him £10,000. A few days later Ahearne passed back to him information received from DCI Davies. To cover their meetings Davies pretended Bray was acting as a police informer.
The prosecution also alleges that Davies said he had discussed the case against Glennon with the Crown Prosecution Service and had tried to get them to drop it.
"The whole tenor is that Mr Davies changed sides for money," said Mr Joyce. "The other two are the runners between Elmore Davies and Curtis Warren."
The trial was adjourned until Thursday.