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A police community support officer from Bradford has denied sharing confidential records about crimes in the community that she worked in.
Alice Dobson is on trial at Bradford Court in connection with a brutal machete attack last year on two men, one of whom had his hand hacked off.
Dobson, 30, of Nether Hall Road, Baildon, is charged with perverting the course of justice by obtaining and disseminating confidential information held by West Yorkshire Police.
She is alleged to have shared information about the machete attack with a man later accused, with others, of carrying it out.
Dobson’s actions were previously described as “a flagrant breach of her role within West Yorkshire Police” and that for some criminals in the BD3 postcode “she was the inside guy”.
Her behaviour allegedly spanned several months during 2025 and involved accessing files related to the machete attack in May of last year as well as an earlier incident, in March, which is said to have spawned the coordinated revenge attack involving bladed weapons.
The victims of the machete attack were Mohammed Zayad Khan and Mohammed Usamah Khan.
Five men – Rahees Khan, Mohammed Waqqas Khan, Hanzalah Saladin, Adam Takolia, and another man who cannot be named for legal reasons – are on trial charged with conspiracy to murder.
Giving evidence on Friday, Dobson told defence barrister Mohammed Nawaz KC that she had logged onto the police computer after being told of an attack on a man called Mohammed “Rizzy” Rizwan on March 12, 2025.
The court previously heard that Rizzy was either related to, or friendly with, the five male defendants in the trial and is the uncle of Rahees Khan, who was friendly with Dobson’s then-boyfriend Fazal Mohammed.
Dobson admitted accessing police logs about the attack, which included the names of suspects.
During the same period, she took screenshots of key details and was recorded as making and receiving calls from her boyfriend and others.
Dobson admitted she had logged onto the police computer when she wasn’t at work despite knowing there was “probably” a ban on such activity.
She said she did so to “stay up to date” with what was happening in the BD3 area.
She also admitted taking screenshots of police computer logs.
Asked directly if she shared that information with any third parties, Dobson replied: “No.”
Asked whether she had told another person that she had been looking at the profiles of the suspects in the March 12 attack, she said: “No, I did not tell him.”
Dobson also admitted that she pleaded guilty to offences of doing an act tending and intended to pervert the course of justice, and a further offence of misconduct in a public office.
Those matters are unrelated to the machete attack.
During the machete attack on May 11, Zayad Khan’s left hand was chopped off, and his left leg was partially severed.
He was left for dead in the street.
Usamah Khan suffered two slashes to the back of his neck.
The trial continues.