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Tina Weaver, Sunday Mirror Editor. Photographed in her office in Canary Wharf. Photo: ELEANOR BENTALL
New Phone Hacking Arrests in UK
Stephen Cook: Last year, it was all about Rupert Murdoch’s News International, its former CEO Rebekah Brooks, and another former News of the World editor Andy Coulson, who was also communications director for British PM David Cameron. Now editors of other popular British publications have been arrested.
Four Editors Held in Mirror Group Hacking Probe
By Martin Evans, Crime Correspondent, The Telegraph UK – March 14, 2013
Former Sunday Mirror editor, Tina Weaver and the current editor of The People, James Scott, are among four journalists arrested as part of a fresh phone hacking probe, sources said today.
Detectives from Scotland Yard’s Operation Weeting detained the pair as well as former People Editor Mark Thomas and current People deputy editor Nick Buckley, in a series of dawn raids across London this morning.
The arrests are understood to be connected with allegations of phone hacking at the Sunday Mirror newspaper dating back to 2003 and 2004.
It represents the first time Mirror Group newspapers has been formally implicated in the hacking scandal which led to the closure of News International’s News of the World title two years ago.
All of those arrested are current or former senior executives at the Sunday Mirror.
A spokesman for Scotland Yard said: “Three men, aged 40, 49 and 46, and a 47-year-old woman were arrested at separate addresses in south London at 6am this morning.
In a statement, the force said detectives working on Operation Weeting, Scotland Yard’s investigation into phone hacking, “have identified and are investigating a suspected conspiracy to intercept telephone voicemails at Mirror Group Newspapers”.
It added: “This conspiracy is being treated as a separate conspiracy to the two being investigated at the now defunct News of the World newspaper.
“It is believed it mainly concerned the Sunday Mirror newspaper and at this stage the primary focus is on the years 2003 and 2004.”
Today’s arrests fall under a separate alleged conspiracy to the two being investigated at the now defunct News of the World newspaper, Scotland Yard said.
The men and woman arrested are journalists or former journalists on Mirror Group Newspaper titles, it added.
The suspects are being interviewed at various police stations in London while searches are being carried out at a number of addresses.
Officers said they plan to make contact with people they believe to have been victims of the suspected phone hacking in due course.
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Invasion of privacy.... i've been phone hacked too by my own personal stalker years ago, lol ...it is highly annoying because you can tell when the line goes (really low)...and dim...so people are not entirely stupid... but its ridiculous that there is no privacy these days ;) ♥