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Sean Hoare brave unsung hero of the hacking scandal found dead..he was key to New York Times/Guardian running renewed Hacking story
18.19 Sean Hoare, who has reportedly been found dead, made fresh allegations against the News of the World last week in the New York Times:
A former show-business reporter for The News of the World, Sean Hoare, who was fired in 2005, said that when he worked there, pinging cost the paper nearly $500 on each occasion. He first found out how the practice worked, he said, when he was scrambling to find someone and was told that one of the news desk editors, Greg Miskiw, could help. Mr. Miskiw asked for the person’s cellphone number, and returned later with information showing the person’s precise location in Scotland, Mr. Hoare said. Mr. Miskiw, who faces questioning by police on a separate matter, did not return calls for comment.
18.14More on that sad news as we get it.
An update on the earlier development of John Yates' resignation: here is the John Yates's resignation statement in full.
18.03 The Guardian reports that former News of the World showbiz reporter, the first named journalist to allege that Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacking at the newspaper, has been found dead at his home.
Police say they are not treating his death as suspicious.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...king-live.html
Hoare, a one-time close friend of Coulson's, told the New York Times the two men first worked together at the Sun, where, Hoare said, he played tape recordings of hacked messages for Coulson.
At the News of the World, Hoare said he continued to inform Coulson of his activities. Coulson "actively encouraged me to do it," Hoare said.
In September last year he was interviewed under caution by police over his claims that the former Tory communications chief asked him to hack into phones when he was editor of the paper, but declined to make any comment.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog...-live-coverage
18.19 Sean Hoare, who has reportedly been found dead, made fresh allegations against the News of the World last week in the New York Times:
A former show-business reporter for The News of the World, Sean Hoare, who was fired in 2005, said that when he worked there, pinging cost the paper nearly $500 on each occasion. He first found out how the practice worked, he said, when he was scrambling to find someone and was told that one of the news desk editors, Greg Miskiw, could help. Mr. Miskiw asked for the person’s cellphone number, and returned later with information showing the person’s precise location in Scotland, Mr. Hoare said. Mr. Miskiw, who faces questioning by police on a separate matter, did not return calls for comment. 18.14More on that sad news as we get it.
An update on the earlier development of John Yates' resignation: here is the John Yates's resignation statement in full.
18.03 The Guardian reports that former News of the World showbiz reporter, the first named journalist to allege that Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacking at the newspaper, has been found dead at his home.
Police say they are not treating his death as suspicious.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...king-live.html
Hoare, a one-time close friend of Coulson's, told the New York Times the two men first worked together at the Sun, where, Hoare said, he played tape recordings of hacked messages for Coulson.
At the News of the World, Hoare said he continued to inform Coulson of his activities. Coulson "actively encouraged me to do it," Hoare said.
In September last year he was interviewed under caution by police over his claims that the former Tory communications chief asked him to hack into phones when he was editor of the paper, but declined to make any comment.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog...-live-coverage
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