breach of trust

Judge Paul Smith called the scale and nature of the crimes "depraved" and "horrendous", saying "there was a significant breach of trust".

The employees were arrested in Zhengzhou in Henan province on "breach of trust" charges, Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council said in a statement.

He said Denholm was now starting to appreciate that it had been a serious breach of trust, and had assured him that the material had not been shared with anyone else.

At sentencing earlier, Judge Simon Carr said there had been an "appalling breach of trust" and that people’s "confidence had been shaken" in the hospital trusts involved.

A nurse who targeted vulnerable patients in what a judge called "the most grotesque breach of trust" has been jailed for 15 months for fraud.