Queensland police have laid nine criminal charges against an officer who leaked the personal details of a domestic violence victim.

Senior Constable Neil Punchard was investigated and disciplined internally in 2016 for accessing the woman’s address from a police database and sending it to her violent former husband.

“Just tell her you know where she lives and leave it at that. Lol. She will flip,” Punchard wrote in a 2014 message that has been seen by Guardian Australia and was sent to the state’s Crime and Corruption Commission.

Guardian Australia can confirm that Punchard has on Friday been charged with nine counts of computer hacking.

The Queensland police commissioner, Ian Stewart, has come under intense scrutiny over his handling of the matter, which has been the subject of significant media coverage and debate in the state parliament.

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