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muriel_volestrangler

(101,322 posts)
Fri Mar 8, 2013, 12:39 PM Mar 2013

Ex-police officer admits selling John Terry information to Sun

Source: BBC

A former Surrey Police officer has admitted selling information, including details about footballer John Terry's mother, to the Sun newspaper.
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Ex-News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks, 44, from Churchill, Oxfordshire, also appeared at the Old Bailey on Friday to face charges in relation to a separate case. Her case was adjourned until April.
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In a separate case, the prime minister's former chief spokesman, Andy Coulson, 45, from Kent, appeared at the Old Bailey facing charges over an alleged conspiracy to bribe public officials for information.

The former News of the World editor is accused, along with ex-NoW royal correspondent Clive Goodman, 55, from Surrey, of requesting and authorising payments to public officials in exchange for information, including a royal phone directory known as the Green Book.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21711544



All Murdoch-owned, of course (the public officials, as well as the papers ...)
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