Only the introduction of the 2010 Bribery Act made it “quite clear” to Sun journalists that they should not pay cash to public officials, The Sun Six trial heard yesterday. Continue reading
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Sun reporter Jamie Pyatt picked up stories from sources other than a Surrey police officer who was receiving cash payments from the paper, he told The Sun corruption trial today. Continue reading
An assault on the Yorkshire Ripper in Broadmoor psychiatric hospital would have become public knowledge regardless of a leak to The Sun, reporter Jamie Pyatt told a court yesterday. Continue reading
A Sun journalist was behaving responsibly when he paid a police officer for internal police witness statements and photographs, he told The Sun Six trial at Kingston Crown Court today. Continue reading
A Sun reporter admitted yesterday that a string of stories about ongoing police investigations, celebrities and high-profile murderers and rapists published in Britain’s best-selling paper had been supplied by public officials for money. Continue reading
The Sun’s head of news denied that falling public trust in the police, prison service and Broadmoor high security hospital was simply “collateral damage” for the newspaper’s news-gathering operation. Continue reading
Sun executives challenged little about the way the paper operated because they were in fear of another “tirade” from editor Rebekah Brooks, its news editor told the Sun corruption trial today. Continue reading
Nothing changed at Rupert Murdoch’s biggest newspaper after its editor told MPs that it made payments to police, a court heard yesterday. Continue reading
The Sun’s news editor did not believe that when his reporters asked for cash payments to “police” or “jail” sources that their contacts were actually serving police or prison officers, Kingston Crown Court heard today. Continue reading
Rebekah Brooks would occasionally reply to emails from her news editor seeking cash payments for the newspaper’s sources but Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper group produced none to a criminal trial of his journalists, a court heard today. Continue reading
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