A POLICE prosecutor who has previously worked in the Mount Isa Magistrates Court is accused of using a restricted database to share information with a friend.
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Sergeant Martin Liam Longhurst was this month suspended from duty after he was charged by the Crime and Corruption Commission with hacking and misconduct offences.
Sergeant Longhurst, 31, appeared briefly in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Monday before his case was adjourned to Monday, July 10.
Court documents show Longhurst is alleged to have accessed the state police database QPRIME in December 2015 to run checks for a long-term close friend relating to a vehicle.
He then allegedly gave the information to his friend over the phone.
At this stage, he's looking at his day in court and fighting the charges.
- Police union secretary Calvin Gnech
Sergeant Longhurst is also charged with accessing QPRIME on seven occasions between January and July 2016 to gain information about a different man and to have used the database in June 2015 to gain a benefit on a vehicle he was thinking about buying.
In addition to the hacking offences, Sergeant Longhurst is charged with misconduct for allegedly gaining a benefit for a man at the Redcliffe Magistrates Court in February 2016 while he was working as a police prosecutor.
Outside court, police union solicitor Calvin Gnech said Sergeant Longhurst was now looking after his welfare.
"At this stage, he's looking at his day in court and fighting the charges," Mr Gnech said.
Sergeant Longhurst was first quoted in The North West Star as a police prosecutor in August, 2013, in relation to a serious assault against a doctor in the Intensive Care Unit.
Since then he was consistently quoted in the paper in relation to court stories, until November, 2014. He returned from Brisbane for a five week stint in May and June, 2016, towards the end of the alleged timeframe of one of his current charges.
In 2014 in the court, solicitor Anderson Telford criticised Sergeant Longhurst’s “inflammatory language” against a client who had thrown ice at a police officer in a pub. It was not the function of the prosecutor to use terms like “drunk idiot” and “moron”, Mr Telford said. -With AAP