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British PR guru Max Clifford charged with sex assaults

Agence France-PresseApril 26, 2013 15:01
Top British publicist Max Clifford was on Friday charged with 11 counts of indecent assault, including four offences relating to girls aged 14 and 15. The alleged offences concern seven different young women and girls ranging in age from 14 to 19 years old and are said to have taken place between 1966 and 1985. Clifford, 70, best known for protecting the image of scandal-hit celebrities in Britain's tabloid press, was arrested in December as part of a wider investigation into sex offences sparked by allegations against the late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile.

British ex-policeman, prison officer jailed in hacking case

March 27, 2013 12:15
By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Two former policemen and an ex-prison officer were jailed on Wednesday for selling stories to Rupert Murdoch's tabloid the Sun, Britain's top-selling newspaper. The three men were convicted as part of a wide-ranging police investigation begun two years ago into claims journalists from Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World newspaper had hacked into mobile phone voicemail messages.

Two UK officials admit selling secrets to Murdoch's Sun

March 8, 2013 07:15
LONDON, March 8 (Reuters) - An ex-policeman and a prison officer admitted on Friday to selling information to the Sun, a British tabloid newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch, in the first guilty pleas to come out of a huge police investigation into wrongdoing by journalists. Former police officer Alan Tierney pleaded guilty to two counts of misconduct in public office for selling stories about the mother of England soccer player John Terry and about Rolling Stones member Ronnie Wood, the Press Association (PA) reported.

February 13, 2013 15:16
UK police arrest six in new probe over hacking at News of the World dk/gj/txw

Ex-police officer to be charged over Sun stories

February 7, 2013 10:15
LONDON, Feb 7 (Reuters) - A former police officer is to be charged with misconduct in a public office over claims he passed details of investigations to the Sun newspaper, prosecutors said on Thursday. Alan Tierney is accused of receiving 1,750 pounds from the Sun, part of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper business News International, for information relating to two stories in 2009.

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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