EX-POLICEMAN ARRESTED IN PHONE-HACKING PROBE
Police probing the phone-hacking liaison at the News of the World publication arrested a former Scotland Yard military officer on Tuesday on guess of leaking information to a journalist.
The 52-year-old was arrested at his home in Berkshire, west of London, by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), and is now in control at a police hire in the area, the IPCC pronounced in a statement.
He was arrested on guess of bungle in open bureau and interpretation insurance offences, it said.
The arrest was the outcome of information upheld to the elect by a Scotland Yard probe in to the temptation of police, called Operation Elveden, “and relates to the purported flitting of unapproved information to a journalist”.
The detain is the ultimate in a array stemming from the liaison over the bootleg hacking of mobile phone voicemails at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, which sealed down in flaw in July.
On Friday, police arrested Cheryl Carter, the former personal partner of Rebekah Brooks, who quiescent in Jul as conduct of News International, the British journal wing of Murdoch’s tellurian media empire.
Brooks has also been arrested, as has Andy Coulson, a former News of the World editor and ex-communications executive for British Prime Minister David Cameron.
Police probing the phone-hacking liaison at the News of the World publication arrested a former Scotland Yard military officer on Tuesday on guess of leaking information to a journalist.
The 52-year-old was arrested at his home in Berkshire, west of London, by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), and is now in control at a police hire in the area, the IPCC pronounced in a statement.
He was arrested on guess of bungle in open bureau and interpretation insurance offences, it said.
The arrest was the outcome of information upheld to the elect by a Scotland Yard probe in to the temptation of police, called Operation Elveden, “and relates to the purported flitting of unapproved information to a journalist”.
The detain is the ultimate in a array stemming from the liaison over the bootleg hacking of mobile phone voicemails at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, which sealed down in flaw in July.
On Friday, police arrested Cheryl Carter, the former personal partner of Rebekah Brooks, who quiescent in Jul as conduct of News International, the British journal wing of Murdoch’s tellurian media empire.
Brooks has also been arrested, as has Andy Coulson, a former News of the World editor and ex-communications executive for British Prime Minister David Cameron.