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RPT-UK Sun reporter charged in police payments probe

January 22, 2013 10:00
LONDON, Jan 22 (Reuters) - A journalist from Rupert Murdoch's Sun tabloid who allegedly paid police for tip-offs has become the latest person to be charged as part of Britain's wider phone-hacking scandal. Virginia Wheeler, the paper's defence editor, is accused of paying a police officer at least 6,450 pounds ($10,200), for information about suspects and victims of accidents and crimes including in the case of the death of a 15-year-old girl.

UK policewoman tried to sell information to tabloid, court told

January 7, 2013 15:54
By Estelle Shirbon LONDON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - A senior British counter-terrorism police officer went on trial on Monday accused of offering to sell the News of the World newspaper inside information about a police investigation into alleged phone-hacking by some of its reporters. The case of April Casburn is the first to come to criminal trial as a result of police investigations into wrongdoing at the Sunday tabloid, which was shut down by its owner Rupert Murdoch in July 2011.
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