LONDON – A senior Sunday newspaper journalist has been suspended over phone hacking claims involving the actress Sienna Miller.
News of the Worldexecutive Ian Edmondson was suspended after the new claims emerged.
A document lodged in the High Court links Edmondson with the interception of voicemail messages from the phones of Miller and Jude Law.
Solicitor Mark Thomson has said paperwork and other records seized by police from private investigator Glenn Mulcaire suggested Edmondson was linked to the hacking.
Mulcaire and former News of the World reporter Clive Goodman were jailed at the Old Bailey in January 2007 after they admitted intercepting messages.
A News of the Worldspokeswoman said: "The News of the World has a zero tolerance approach to any wrongdoing."
Miller is suing the News of the World'sparent company, News Group, and Mulcaire, accusing them of breaching her privacy and harassment. – (PA)