The U.K. capital’s top police official resigned Sunday, and the former chief of News Corp.’s U.K. newspaper unit was arrested, as the country’s tabloid newspaper scandal raced uncomfortably into the top ranks of Britain’s law-enforcement and media worlds.
Late Sunday, the head of London’s Metropolitan Police Service, known as Scotland Yard, resigned due largely to connections between the police and the phone-hacking scandal. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson cited intense media scrutiny and the hiring of a former News Corp. tabloid editor to advise police on public relations; that editor, Neil Wallis, was arrested in connection with the criminal investigation last week.
Sir Paul’s resignation came hours after U.K. police arrested Rebekah Brooks, News Corp.’s former top U.K. newspaper official and a key figure in the rapidly evolving investigation.
Interesting.
I don’t understand the faux-moral outrage by everyone in England. I lived there, and their print media outlets are sleazy to the point of obscene. I don’t know why anyone is surprised by any of this.
…because hacking voicemail, accessing the Prime Minister’s medical records and bribing police is not sleazy its criminal.
Our federal government does that all the time under the Patriot Act without warrant. What does that say?