Tracey Miller, a former third-party care team manager at Aviva, has been ordered to pay £4,500 compensation within 12 months for receiving bribe and supplying confidential data. She was also handed down a two-year prison sentence, suspended for two years.

The former Aviva manager provided the confidential data to a man who paid her £4,500 in exchange for contact information he could use to make cold calls following road accidents, according to a report by Oldham Chronicle.

"This is prison. It's that straightforward. It's a breach of trust of her employers, a breach of trust of society, it's a breach of trust of everybody. There has to be a deterrent element to this sentence," said Judge Beverley Lunt during the sentencing, as quoted by the report.

The report said Miller admitted bribery, which took place in 2013 and saw her arrested last year. She reportedly took voluntary redundancy from Aviva during the same year she accepted the bribe.

Addressing the defendant, Judge Lunt said, "You were trusted by this company. You were paid by this company and you breached their trust because of the lure of money."


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