Police are probing claims News of the World staff illegally accessed public figures’ phone messages Police investigating claims of phone hacking at the News of the World have arrested a woman in West Yorkshire.
The woman, 39, faces charges of conspiring to intercept mobile and voicemail messages.
The arrest was made as part of Operation Weeting, launched by the Met Police in January.
The paper’s former royal reporter Clive Goodman and private detective Glenn Mulcaire were jailed for intercepting messages from the Royal Family.
Police reopened their inquiry into the hacking claims after allegations that other public figures – including MPs – had their messages intercepted.
Since then, three News of the World journalists have been arrested.
News International, which owns the newspaper, issued a statement saying Thursday’s arrest did not relate to a current employee or a former full-time staff member.
“We have been co-operating fully with the police inquiry since our voluntary disclosure of evidence reopened the police investigation,” the statement said.
“Since then we have been determined to deal with these issues both on the criminal and civil side. In April we admitted liability in several civil cases and we are attempting to bring these to a fair resolution.”
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