Charles Littlejohn: Man who leaked Trump's tax returns sentenced to five years

A former US tax worker has been sentenced to five years in prison over the unauthorised leak of Donald Trump's personal tax records to media outlets.

Charles Littlejohn, 38, must also spend three years under supervised release and pay a $5,000 fine for his actions.

Littlejohn stole tax data from thousands of wealthy Americans while working as a contractor for the US-wide Internal Revenue Service.

It was "an attack on our constitutional democracy", a judge said on Monday.