Eleventh arrest from NoW
AN eleventh man was arrested yesterday as part of the phone hacking investigation into the News of the World.
Former managing editor Stuart Kuttner, 71, has previously admitted approving a “relatively small but regrettable number of false cash payments” to private investigator Glenn Mulcaire. The arrest came as pressure continued to rise on rival newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror, with claims a Sunday Mirror journalist testified under oath to bribing a policeman.
A lawyer for Tim Blackstone – the brother of former Labour minister Tessa Blackstone – alleged the reporter told the court he paid £50 to an unnamed policeman for a tip about an incident at the PR executive’s house in 2000. It is understood no transcripts exist. Trinity Mirror declined to comment. Meanwhile Jonathan May-Bowles, the man who threw a foam pie at Rupert Murdoch, was jailed for six weeks.