A journalist at the Sun has been arrested in north London by police from Scotland Yard’s Operation Tuleta, which is investigating breaches of privacy including computer hacking.He is understood to be Rhodri Phillips, a news reporter at the paper.
The Metropolitan police said the man was held at his home at 6.30am yesterday, but they did not give his age or any detail of offences he was suspected of committing.
The Met has 19 officers working on Operation Tuleta, compared with 96 officers officers and civilian personnel on Operation Weeting and 70 on Operation Elveden, the investigation into payments by journalists to police and public officials.
Scotland Yard described Tuleta as “an investigation into a number of allegations referring to breaches of privacy which fall outside the remit of Operation Weeting. This includes computer hacking.”
Operation Tuleta is investigating the use by newspapers of so-called “trojan” emails, which allow a hacker to take over a target’s computer. – (Guardian service)