[6] These include a journalist working for News International, arrested and taken to a south west London police station on 4 November 2011.
[13] On 17 January 2013, the BBC reported that three more people, two police officers and a third man understood to be the Sun journalist Anthony France, had been arrested early that morning.
[17] On 20 November 2012, news sources reported that the Crown Prosecution Service had announced a series of charges would be brought against five individuals in relation to Operation Elveden.
[18][19][20][21][22] Those reported as having been named in relation to these charges included Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, John Kay and Clive Goodman.
[18][19][20][21] On 5 June 2013, the Crown Prosecution Service dropped charges against Sun defence editor Virginia Wheeler on health grounds.
[23][24] These include: On 20 March 2015, four Sun journalists were cleared of paying public officials for stories after a trial at the Old Bailey.
[32] The trial heard that £100,000 was paid to Ministry of Defence official Bettina Jordan-Barber, who had earlier pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office and was jailed in January 2015.