Neville Thurlbeck (born 7 October 1961) is a British journalist who worked for the tabloid newspaper News of the World for 21 years.
Later Thurlbeck was among four ex-News of the World journalists to plead guilty to phone-hacking and was jailed along with Greg Miskiw.
[4] Thurlbeck also broke the story that Jeffrey Archer had committed perjury during his 1987 libel case against the Daily Star.
[6] At the turn of the millennium Thurlbeck, under the codename "George", acted as an "unpaid source" for the police.
In return he received information from the Police National Computer which principally consisted of the previous convictions of various criminals.
[11] He was responsible for the exclusive over Max Mosley's private life which resulted in his newspaper being sued, paying £60,000 damages for the paper's breach of his privacy.
[12] Mosley later suggested that Thurlbeck's methods were akin to blackmail, with the journalist telling women that "if you don't co-operate we will publish your pictures unpixellated.
He denies the allegations which led to his sacking and is pursuing a claim of unfair dismissal against News International.
[16] In July, 2017, it was revealed that Thurlbeck had won his case for unfair dismissal and had settled his claim amicably.
His lawyer announced: "Neville Thurlbeck reached an agreement with News Group Newspapers Ltd to settle his Employment Tribunal claim amicably.
[17] In 2016, he was appointed a director of the International Fur Federation, with responsibility for global communications for 39 member countries.
[19] Thurlbeck's memoir, Tabloid Secrets: The Stories Behind the Headlines at the World's Most Famous Newspaper was published in May 2015.
[20] In 2009 Thurlbeck was reported as one of the journalists who had received transcripts of intercepted calls in the News International phone hacking scandal.
[24] Thurlbeck was arrested in March 2012 by officers from Operation Weeting, on suspicion of intimidating a witness and encouraging or assisting an offence after he published the home address of an executive on News Corporation's management and standards committee on his website on 7 March.
[25] His name appears in an e-mail from a News of the World reporter headed "for Neville" which contained transcripts of 35 voicemails.