Former News of the World legal manager arrested in phone hacking inquiry
Tom Crone, a former legal manager at the News of the World, has been arrested by police as part of ongoing investigations into phone hacking.
Crone was detained by officers at 06:45am yesterday, on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, following a dawn call on his south west London home.
It is believed that Crone was targeted after fresh information was divulged by the company’s management and standards committee, a new body tasked with cleaning up the papers operation.
Crone had spent 25 years at News International’s legal department prior to his departure last July when the News of the World was unceremoniously scrapped by Rupert Murdoch.
He had previously intimated to a Commons culture committee that phone hacking had been restricted to one ‘rogue reporter’, before later contradicting their boss, James Murdoch, by stating they had informed him that there had been evidence the practice was more widespread.