A FORMER community police officer cleared of deception has told how the whole ordeal has left her battling depression.

Saba Sheikh, 27, was arrested after she was accused of bragging about fraudulently obtaining Sky TV by dropping the ‘H’ in her surname in October 2006.

A year later Miss Sheikh, who worked as a PCSO in Thurrock for three years, was charged with obtaining services by deception.

She resigned from her £19,000 a year job.

Yet after a four-day trial, at Basildon Crown Court, a jury delivered a not guilty verdict.

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