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2 August 2011

Another arrest in the hacking scandal

Unnamed man believed to be former News of the World managing editor Stuart Kuttner has been arrested

By George Eaton

It may have been knocked off the front pages by the US debt imbroglio but there have been several important developments in the phone hacking scandal. Yesterday brought the revelation that News International ordered the technology firm HCL to delete hundreds of thousands of emails; today we learn that an unnamed 71-year-old man, believed to be former News of the World managing editor Stuart Kuttner, was arrested this morning.

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