The Sun’s royal editor arrested in U.K. corruption probe

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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According to the police reports, a royal editor from The Sun, Duncan Larcombe, was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of conspiracy to corrupt and conspiracy to cause misconduct in a public office.

The 36-year-old journalist was held in a dawn swoop at his home in Kent, while officers from Scotland Yard’s Operation Elveden have arrested a former armed forces member, 42, and a woman, 38, at their house in Lancashire. No further details have yet been released. The former serviceman was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in a public office and the woman on suspicion of aiding and supporting misconduct in a public office.

Scotland Yard officials have stated: “Today’s (Thursday) operation is the result of information provided to police by News Corporation’s management standards committee. It relates to suspected payments to a public official and is not about seeking journalists to reveal confidential sources in relation to information that has been obtained legitimately.”

The addresses of those held were being searched and the arrested were being inquired. An independent body was formed to carry out internal investigations at News International regarding the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World tabloid. Sources have revealed that the tabloid illegally accessed the voicemails of a murdered schoolgirl led Murdoch to close the top-selling Sunday newspaper last July.

A total of 26 suspects have now been arrested since last July as an investigation into alleged illegal payments to public officials, which is linked to Scotland Yard’s continuing phone-hacking probe. Police has also passed prosecutors four files on 11 suspects this week which could lead to the first charges from the widespread probe into News International activities. Four journalists, one police officer and six other people included in the files being considered by the Crown Prosecution Service.

The files were organized after parallel police investigations into phone-hacking. The investigations included bribery of public officials and the leaking of sensitive information by police to ‘The Guardian’ newspaper that helped in disclosing the News of the World scandal.

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