There is a Metropolitan police investigation into phone hacking in the city of Essex, called Operation Weeting. There have been some arrests of people that are involved in the investigated case, and this is how Rebekah Brooks has been arrested and bailed in July. But she wasn´t arrested just as a part of Operation Weeting, also as part of Operation Elveden, the investigation into police corruption.
According to a Metropolitan police statement, this morning, a 47-year-old woman was arrested at 6.55am, on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice. Her name is Cheryl Carter, who was Brooks' right-hand for 19 years and was familiar with many of her business. Carter worked with her when she was editor of the News of the World and the Sun and latterly when Brooks was elevated to the chief executive's role. In July, she was designated as the Sun's beauty editor. People assume that she left the company around the time that Brooks did it.
A spokesman for the Metropolitan police said that the woman had not been arrested before and he confirmed that she was not a policewoman.
Cheryl Carter is the second person that has been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice in relation to Operation Weeting.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jan/06/phone-hacking-rebekah-brooks-former-pa (title: Phone Hacking: Rebekah Brooks´s former PA arrested/ author: Lisa O´Carroll)
2 comments:
I condemn every offense against the privacy of communications. These acts are not justified by the mere suspicion ofa possible crime.
In my view, with this facts, the criminal policy is above the penal right and this is not good for the Rule of Law. Slowly the society enter in a Orwellian world.
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