Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks (centre) arrives at the Old Bailey courthouse for a hearing in London, yesterday.
LONDON: A former policeman and an ex-prison officer admitted yesterday to selling information to the Sun, a British tabloid newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch, in the first guilty pleas to come out of a huge police investigation into wrongdoing by journalists.
The charges stemmed from an inquiry launched in 2011 into allegations journalists from Murdoch’s now-defunct News of the World newspaper had hacked into mobile phone voicemail messages.
Former police officer Alan Tierney pleaded guilty yesterday to two counts of misconduct in public office for selling stories to the Sun about the mother of England soccer player John Terry and about Rolling Stones member Ronnie Wood.
Ex-prison officer Richard Trunkfield pleaded guilty to misconduct in public office for selling information about a high-profile prisoner.
Reuters
