[1] Crone qualified as a barrister, and after five years of private practise joined Mirror Group Newspapers.
[5] He also hit out at then Attorney General for England and Wales Lord Goldsmith for clamping down on media coverage of high-profile cases, such as the allegations of rape made against a group of Premier League footballers, before they go to trial.
[7] In 2011, within 10 days of the revelation of the hacking of Milly Dowler's phone, he resigned from his position at News International.
[4][2] He maintains that he did not see an internal report suggesting that phone hacking at the paper reached more widely than Goodman.
[7] Since police renewed investigations in 2011, 90 people have been arrested and 16 formally charged with crimes in conjunction with illegal acquisition of confidential information.