Bethany Usher, a former journalist of News of the World and senior Journalism lecturer at Teesside University, was today arrested by the police in connection with the phone-hacking scandal in north-east England by officers from Operation Weeting.
31-year-old Bethany Usher, who worked for the media baron Rupert's Murdoch's tabloid from 2005-2007, was held held on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept voicemail messages, contrary to the Criminal Law Act 1977. She was arrested at 06:35 GMT and is at a police station in Northumberland. Usher is the 17th person to be arrested under the 'Operation Weeting', which is investigating the scandal.
The Metropolitan Police set up Operation Weeting to investigate the illegal hacking of the mobile phone voicemails of public figures by the now-defunct NoW newspaper. The scandal has led Met Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson and Assistant Commissioner John Yates to resign, and the NoW to close down after 168 years. It is now investigating more widespread phone hacking.
She was questioned by police in 2006 on suspicion of providing false information for a job at Buckingham Palace. That time she was not charged. It was involved in a genuine journalistic inquiry into royal security. Her biography on Teesside University's website states that she spent seven years working in the newspaper industry after reading English Literature and Language at the University of Leeds. The Metropolitan Police set up Operation Weeting to investigate the illegal hacking of the mobile phone voicemails of public figures by the now-defunct NoW newspaper.
Original Source: BBC News
31-year-old Bethany Usher, who worked for the media baron Rupert's Murdoch's tabloid from 2005-2007, was held held on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept voicemail messages, contrary to the Criminal Law Act 1977. She was arrested at 06:35 GMT and is at a police station in Northumberland. Usher is the 17th person to be arrested under the 'Operation Weeting', which is investigating the scandal.
The Metropolitan Police set up Operation Weeting to investigate the illegal hacking of the mobile phone voicemails of public figures by the now-defunct NoW newspaper. The scandal has led Met Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson and Assistant Commissioner John Yates to resign, and the NoW to close down after 168 years. It is now investigating more widespread phone hacking.
She was questioned by police in 2006 on suspicion of providing false information for a job at Buckingham Palace. That time she was not charged. It was involved in a genuine journalistic inquiry into royal security. Her biography on Teesside University's website states that she spent seven years working in the newspaper industry after reading English Literature and Language at the University of Leeds. The Metropolitan Police set up Operation Weeting to investigate the illegal hacking of the mobile phone voicemails of public figures by the now-defunct NoW newspaper.
Original Source: BBC News
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