14/03/2013

Journalist Arrested In Hacking Investigation

Officers investigation alleged phone hacking have arrested three men and one woman on Thursday morning.

They are thought to be journalists or former journalists at Mirror Group Newspapers.

Scotland Yard said it had identified a suspected conspiracy to intercept telephone voicemails at the newspaper group. It is believed it mainly concerns the Sunday Mirror.

Police said the probe was being treated separately to News of the World cases.

Police working on Operation Weeting said three men, aged 40, 49 and 46, and a 47-year-old woman were held at separate addresses in south London at 06:00 GMT on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept telephone communications contrary to the Criminal Law Act 1997.

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