A lawyer, Conor Johnstone, 34, is found guilty of impersonating a police officer after contacting a Nando’s restaurant to request CCTV footage. According to reports, Johnstone posed as a police constable, using a false name, and created a fake police email account to repeatedly contact staff. The requests were made in pursuit of camera footage from the restaurant, with the goal described in coverage as to spy on an ex-girlfriend with her new partner. Multiple outlets describe the same core conduct: Johnstone used deception—both by claiming police status and by using an invented police email address—to obtain surveillance information from staff who were not the law-enforcement audience he pretended to be. The conviction follows the investigation into these communications and the false identity used to solicit the footage.