Former NoW news editor is 12th phone-hacking inquiry arrest
Former News of the World news editor Greg Miskiw has become the 12th person to be arrested by Operation Weeting officers as part of the Metropolitan Police investigation into media phone-hacking.
Miskiw, 61, was arrested after visiting a police station by appointment. The News International redtop’s former assistant editor was arrested yesterday at midday.
The Guardian reports that Miskiw worked within the centre of the news operation at the paper for many years and had signed private investigator Glenn Mulcaire’s £105,000-a-year contract. Mulcaire went onto please guilty to phone hacking in 2006 and was imprisoned.
It has also been reported that Miskiw’s named appeared on separate documents offering Mulcaire a bonus £7,000 for information of chief executive of the Professional Footballers’ Association, Gordon Taylor.
Miskiw relocated to Manchester in 2003 to oversee the company’s news operations in Manchester where he would subsequently form a news agency having departed from News International in 2005.
He then moved to Florida to work on The Globe, and had returned to the UK to help police with their investigation into phone hacking practices taking place at the News of the World.