Source: National Cyber Security - Produced By Gregory Evans
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it had received four files from police in the past few weeks covering a range of offences allegedly committed by four journalists, a police officer and six other people. The CPS declined to name anyone in the files but said not all of them were arrested during Operation Weeting, the hacking inquiry which began in January 2011, and four other linked police inquiries. There was speculation last night that Amelia Hill, a Guardian journalist who worked on stories exposing the hacking scandal, was among those named in the four files. She was questioned under caution last year over allegations that she received leaked information from a detective in the phone-hacking team. A 51-year-old police officer was also arrested. The Guardian declined to comment last night. The handover of the files follows the arrests of Ms Brooks, 43, and her husband, Charlie Brooks, last month. Four other people, including News International’s head of security, Mark Hanna, were also arrested. Police were believed to be investigating a possible plot to conceal the extent of voicemail interception at the News Of The World after Operation Weeting was launched. Perverting the course of justice carries a penalty of [...]
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