From The Guardian:
A 60-year-old man, understood to be former News of the World head of legal Tom Crone, has been arrested by Metropolitan police detectives investigating phone hacking.
Crone was arrested at his home address in south-west London on Thursday morning on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept communications.
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He is the first to be arrested under Operation Weeting since the Crown Prosecution Service brought phone-hacking charges against several former News of the World journalists, including ex-chief executive Rebekah Brooks and former editor Andy Coulson, earlier this month.
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Crone is arrest number 25 in Operation Weeting, which focuses on phone hacking only.
Some more from our beloved Brit in The Daily Beast:
“It’s yet another blow to the reputation of News Corp.,” said Chris Bryant a British M.P. who has been investigating abuses at News International, News Corp.’s beleaguered subsidiary. “I’m glad the police are finally pursuing their investigations wherever the evidence leads them.”
Crone resigned from News International during the height of the phone hacking crisis last summer, and while he has been censured for misleading Parliament, this is the first time he has been arrested by police. “His arrest is clearly significant,” said M.P., Tom Watson, in an interview with the Daily Beast. An “articulate and very clever man,” Watson said, “Crone was a loyal servant to Rupert Murdoch for many years.” The lawyer joined News International twenty five years ago, and has been its senior legal figure in many high profile disputes and libel cases.
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Today, the tables have turned dramatically. As well as being one of the most effective lawyers in the British press, Crone’s arrest represents the first sign that the police are looking beyond the editorial level for alleged complicity in the phone hacking scandal.
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