Sun Newspaper Staff among eight arrested in police probe

Sun newspaper staff among eight arrested in police probe



By the CNN Wire Staff
February 11, 2012 -- Updated 1127 GMT (1927 HKT)






The headquarters of News Corporation in Manhattan, New York.


STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Five of those arrested work for the bestselling Sun newspaper
  
• The others are a police officer, a member of the military and a Ministry of Defence employee
  
• News Corp. says it is committed to ensuring unacceptable practices will not be repeated
  

London (CNN) -- Authorities arrested eight people
Saturday -- including five employees of Britain's bestselling Sun
newspaper -- as part of an inquiry into illegal payments to police and
officials.

The other three are a police officer, an employee of the Ministry of
Defence and a member of the armed forces, the Metropolitan Police said.

News International's offices in east London are being searched, the
police said in a statement, as well as the homes of those arrested.

News International, which owns the Sun, is the U.K. subsidiary of media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

The arrests are part of Operation Elveden, an investigation running
in parallel with a police inquiry into alleged phone hacking by News
International employees.

News Corp. said in a statement that it "remains committed to ensuring
that unacceptable news gathering practices by individuals in the past
will not be repeated."

Gets murkier and murkier for these newspaper editors,i just wish they could pin something on that spineless crustation piers morgan and take that plum infested grin off his face.

From Sky News

"Sky News' Martin Brunt said the deputy editor of The Sun Geoff Webster was one of those detained.
Others included The Sun's picture editor John Edwards, chief reporter John Kay, chief foreign correspondent Nick Parker, and reporter John Sturgis."

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From FB yesterday, obviously his contact was correct, wonder if its going to be Lazzeri next....

Well, well, look what's crawled out from under the sink! Not him. Antonella Lazzeri. And if what my contact told me last week turns out to be true....well, let's just watch out for those headlines!

Lillyofthevalley wrote:From FB yesterday, obviously his contact was correct, wonder if its going to be Lazzeri next....

Well, well, look what's crawled out from under the sink! Not him. Antonella Lazzeri. And if what my contact told me last week turns out to be true....well, let's just watch out for those headlines!

Hi Lilyofthevalley.....are you saying that sycophant Lazzeri is possibly involved.???? I bet the McCanns are getting worried about their "strong"
relationship with The Sun and Murdoch, ever get the feeling it's all starting to unravel?

Yes Panda I do, infact its unravelling very fast at the mo, all the McCann "helper" seem to be suffering Karma I believe.

Its what David Bret on Face Book thinks, have to wait till next week to find out, this was his comments yesterday befor the 5 arrest today, so his contact is obvicously in the kno.......

Well, well, look what's crawled out from under the sink! Not him. Antonella Lazzeri. And if what my contact told me last week turns out to be true....well, let's just watch out for those headlines!

Sorry for late reply Panda

Lillyofthevalley wrote:Yes Panda I do, infact its unravelling very fast at the mo, all the McCann "helper" seem to be suffering Karma I believe.

Its what David Bret on Face Book thinks, have to wait till next week to find out, this was his comments yesterday befor the 5 arrest today, so his contact is obvicously in the kno.......

Well, well, look what's crawled out from under the sink! Not him. Antonella Lazzeri. And if what my contact told me last week turns out to be true....well, let's just watch out for those headlines!

Sorry for late reply Panda

No worries

Have a look at the Armaggedon thread on World News, there is an interesting account of a dinner Party at Rupert Murdoch's London Town House last
May.