The NSPCC said it was "appalled" that a sex offender had been recruited as an
informant.
This evidence seriously compromised the credibility of the
informant witness in this case.
The 40-year-old
informant testified matter-of-factly for hours in federal court in Washington on Monday and Tuesday under the pseudonym of Ali Majrisi.
The Lebanese defendant and the
informant met in a parking lot of the hypermarket's main gate where they chatted for a while before leaving the place.
XY proved the relationship between
informant and handler is often a difficult one.
While Best Buy is legally allowed to search customer computers, the FBI's use of paid
informants without a warrant could potentially violate Fourth Amendment protections over unreasonable searches.
Mr Woods said a regular
informant may get PS20 to PS40 "here and there", but generally most get a one-off payment of PS120 to PS200 if information led to the arrest of a drug dealer.
But former cop Neil Woods said that paying
informants has 'literally no benefit', as it simply serves to expand gangsters' drug empires, as small time drug dealers are locked away.
5 million to nine
informants, who were instrumental in containing nine notorious personalities, including two New People's Army (NPA) leaders and three Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) sub leaders.
SECRET
informants have been paid more than PS360,000 for snitching to Merseyside Police over the past five years.
A summary of the
informant witness' criminal history;
The
informant said policemen fired at their car on April 25.
