A Sunday Mirror journalist, Justin Penrose, is one of two journalists who have been arrested today by Police officers from Scotland Yard investigating allegations of payments to public officials.
Trinity Mirror confirmed that one of the two journalists arrested is Sunday Mirror crime correspondent Penrose whose arrest signals the widening of the Operation Elveden investigation beyond News International. Read more »
News of the World Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, who was jailed for six months in 2007 for phone hacking, today lost his legal battle to conceal the identity of journalists who commissioned him to hack into mobile phones.
Mulcaire had appealed in an attempt avoid being forced to reveal in civil proceedings that could incriminate him and others. Read more »
The police have confirmed that three more people have been arrested in the on going phone hacking investigation, including the Sun’s royal editor.
This morning people at private addresses in Kent and Lancashire, following a parliamentary investigation into allegations of inappropriate payments to police and public officials. Read more »
Virginia Wheeler, defence editor of The Sun, has become the latest journalist to be arrested by police investigating corrupt payments to public officials as part of Operation Elveden.
The Sun’s defence editor, who is also one of the youngest to be taken into custody, is the 23-person to be arrested at News International. Read more »
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