Some stories published by The Sun as a result payments to public officials were so trivial that jurors should acquit the reporter who wrote them, his lawyer said today. Continue reading
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Britain’s biggest newspaper group fed “misleading” and “incomplete” evidence to detectives about bribery of public officials including supplying barely any documents from its former chief executive Rebekah Brooks, a lawyer for a Sun journalist told the court today. Continue reading
The Sun bought everyone who might make an interesting story with “wheelbarrows of cash,” including public officials, the Crown’s lead prosecutor told the paper’s corruption trial today. Continue reading
A journalist’s belief that they acted in the public interest by paying a public official for information does not protect them from the criminal law, a judge said on Friday when giving the jury legal directions in the Sun Six Trial. Continue reading
The Sun’s head of news, Chris Pharo, will no longer stand trial for a charge of conspiring to commit misconduct in public office involving a prison officer, a jury was told today. Continue reading
Sun reporter John Troup did not know he was paying a prison officer for an exclusive story about a prisoner’s death at a Category A jail, a court heard yesterday.
Giving evidence at The Sun Six trial, Mr Troup agreed with the Crown’s counsel that he had entered into an agreement to pay a tipster for information about the suicide of a hitman at HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire.
A Sun reporter never wrote a story for which he asked a manager for £300 cash to pay a prison officer, he told a court today. John Troup told The Sun Six Trial that “on the balance of probabilities” he believed his colleague Simon Hughes – who is not on trial – wrote the story about a hanging at HMP Whitemoor.
The trial of Sun journalists accused of making or agreeing illegal payments to police officers and other public officials was adjourned yesterday due to juror illness. Continue reading
The Sun’s former managing editor made up his expenses, he told the Sun Six trial yesterday. Graham Dudman said that when he claimed on his expenses for meals with police contacts he was actually having Chinese takeaways or curries with his family at his home town of Brentwood in Essex. Continue reading
The Sun executive in charge of doling out cash to reporters for their sources today said he did not know how often payments were made to public officials. Giving evidence at The Sun Six trial, Mr Dudman told the court that on rare occasions The Sun did pay officials for information but said he did not know how much cash went to them, saying: “I don’t have the paperwork.” Continue reading
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