{"id":741847,"date":"2026-08-18T12:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/741847\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:44:09","slug":"man-charged-with-sharing-asylum-seeker-addresses-in-thetford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/741847\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with sharing asylum seeker addresses in Thetford"},"content":{"rendered":"

An employee of a company that provides accommodation for asylum seekers has been charged with misconduct in public office over sharing the properties’ addresses.<\/p>\n

Houses in St John’s Way, Bracken Road, Clover Way, Elm Road and Chester Way in Thetford, Norfolk, were targeted by crowds over three nights<\/a> earlier this month.<\/p>\n

James Jobson, 62, from Highlow Road, Costessey, near Norwich, works at Serco and appeared at Ipswich Magistrates’ Court on Monday.<\/p>\n

He was remanded in custody and will appear at Norwich Crown Court on 14 September.<\/p>\n

The charge stated that between 3 and 14 August, while acting as a public officer employed by Serco, Jobson “wilfully and without reasonable excuse or justification” committed misconduct in a way which “amounted to an abuse of the public’s trust in the office”. <\/p>\n

Norfolk Police said the charge was in connection to the “release of information relating to a number of addresses in Thetford, which were later targeted during several nights of violent disorder in the town”. <\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Serco said: “This matter is currently being handled by the police, and we are cooperating fully. As this relates to an ongoing legal process, it would be inappropriate to comment further.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An employee of a company that provides accommodation for asylum seekers has been charged with misconduct in public…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-741847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}