Phone Hacking: 'News of the World' Hollywood Reporter is Arrested

Source: Guardian UK

Phone hacking: News of the World Hollywood reporter is arrested

guardian.co.uk, Thu 18 Aug 2011 10.29 BST

James Desborough, an award-winning reporter at the former News of the World newspaper, has been arrested by officers investigating the phone-hacking scandal.

Desborough was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, contrary to section 1 (1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977 after arriving at a south London police station on Thursday morning at 10.30am. He had arrived at the station by appointment for questioning about criminal activities at the paper.

The allegations are believed to relate to events prior to Desborough being promoted to be the newspaper's Los Angeles-based US editor in April 2009.

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His move to the US makes his arrest, the 13th made by Operation Weeting, particularly significant. If Desborough was involved in hacking while in Britain, as police appear to believe he was, it raises the question of whether he practised those techniques in the US – and if so, whether he was the first and only News of the World journalist in the US to do so.

Read more: http://m.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/18/phone-hacking-news-of-the-world?cat=media&type=article

suspicion
allegations
police appear to believe
raises the question

and I notice they've stopped putting this subject under "news" using their "media" instead.

BBC and others have The Guardian as the source and the Beeb have added :

On Wednesday, the former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson was cleared of misconduct in his handling of the phone-hacking inquiry by the police watchdog.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission also cleared John Yates, former Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman and former Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke of misconduct over phone hacking.

However, an independent inquiry will examine claims Mr Yates secured a Met Police job for a News of the World executive's daughter.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14573942

that this reporter plied some hacking in the US? Can it then remain what appears to be a rather inactive investigation?

who'd been arrested when the rest of the media were completely in the dark.

Phone hacking: Police officer arrested over leaks.

A police officer has been arrested in relation to leaks during the Scotland Yard phone-hacking investigation.

The 51-year-old detective constable was arrested at work on Thursday and bailed. He has been suspended.

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The Met's Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers said the police officer's arrest was "hugely disappointing".

She said: "I made it very clear when I took on this investigation the need for operational and information security. It is hugely disappointing that this may not have been adhered to.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-14596815

The BBC have said that The Guardian are refusing to comment and nearly two hours later the Guardian have yet to add this to their Phone hacking section. The impression I got from live BBC News here in the UK was that the Guardian are now under investigation too.