Police hold woman in hacking inquiry
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December 1, 2011, Thursday
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LONDON police investigating the scandal of illegal telephone hacking centered on the UK arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp empire said they arrested a woman yesterday as part of their inquiries.
Police said the unnamed 31-year-old was detained on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept voicemail messages. She is being questioned at a police station in northeast England.
No further details were available.
Detectives launched the investigation in January into whether journalists and private investigators, seeking gossip for stories, illegally intercepted voicemail messages on the mobile phones of people ranging from celebrities and politicians to murder victims and the families of dead soldiers.
They are also looking at whether reporters paid police for information.
The investigation is focused on the News of the World tabloid, which was closed down by News Corp's UK arm, News International, in July after revelations its reporters had hacked the phone of a missing schoolgirl before the girl was found dead.
The woman arrested yesterday is the 18th person to be arrested as part of the inquiry, joining a list of suspects that includes senior News International figures and Prime Minister David Cameron's former media chief, a former News of the World editor.
The scandal has embarrassed and damaged Murdoch and his son James, News International's chairman, and engulfed much of the British establishment, including senior police officers and Cameron himself.
It also led to Cameron ordering an inquiry into the British press which began hearings last month, delivering more damaging allegations about the behavior of newspapers and journalists.
Police said the unnamed 31-year-old was detained on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept voicemail messages. She is being questioned at a police station in northeast England.
No further details were available.
Detectives launched the investigation in January into whether journalists and private investigators, seeking gossip for stories, illegally intercepted voicemail messages on the mobile phones of people ranging from celebrities and politicians to murder victims and the families of dead soldiers.
They are also looking at whether reporters paid police for information.
The investigation is focused on the News of the World tabloid, which was closed down by News Corp's UK arm, News International, in July after revelations its reporters had hacked the phone of a missing schoolgirl before the girl was found dead.
The woman arrested yesterday is the 18th person to be arrested as part of the inquiry, joining a list of suspects that includes senior News International figures and Prime Minister David Cameron's former media chief, a former News of the World editor.
The scandal has embarrassed and damaged Murdoch and his son James, News International's chairman, and engulfed much of the British establishment, including senior police officers and Cameron himself.
It also led to Cameron ordering an inquiry into the British press which began hearings last month, delivering more damaging allegations about the behavior of newspapers and journalists.
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