List of people arrested in the News International phone-hacking scandal
In 2004, ten arrests were made under Operation Nigeria following placement of a police listening device in the office of private investigator Jonathan Rees and a subsequent raid on the home of Stephen Whittamore.
Recorded conversations and seized documents established that Paul Marshall, a former civilian communications officer based at Tooting police station in London, provided confidential information to Alan King, a retired police officer, who passed it along to private investigator John Boyall, who in turn gave it to private investigator Stephen Whittamore, who in turn sold it to agents of national press organizations.
These resulted in many additional arrests that included law enforcement officers, public officials and former editors and executives of news organizations.
[25] In August 2012, Strathclyde police charged two additional former employees of News of the World, both former editors for the Scotland edition, with perjury relating to the same trial.
Of the thirteen suspects that had been referred to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) by the Metropolitan Police Service for review, eight were charged with a total of nineteen charges, three that had worked for or contributed articles to News of the World were not to be pursued due to insufficient evidence (Terenia Taras, Raoul Simons, Ross Hall),[21] and two were to continue to be investigated.
[86][87] In August 2012, additional files covering possible crimes were submitted to CPS by the Met for advice prior to making formal charges.
[88] This is a chronological list of individuals that pleaded guilty or were convicted of illegally acquiring confidential information for the news media in conjunction with the phone hacking scandal.
The list also includes those who pleaded guilty or were convicted of unrelated crimes if those individuals were at any time agents of or associated with others alleged to be involved with illegal acquisition of confidential information for news media.
