'Sun' crime reporter found guilty of paying for story tips

May 22, 2015 21:16

Rupert Murdoch owned 'Sun' tabloid's crime reporter has been found guilty of paying a Heathrow Airport police officer for 38 scoops. Anthony France, a crime reporter who joined the 'Sun' in 2004, had denied aiding and abetting Timothy Edwards to commit misconduct in a public office.

The 41-year-old's trial at the Old Bailey court was part of the Scotland Yard's Operation Elveden, which is investigating alleged illegal payments to police and officials.

The officer, part of the Met's counter-terrorism command, sold 38 stories and titbits of information to France in exchange for 22,340 pounds. He told France about a British Airways engineer caught in high heels and a bodice walking a makeshift catwalk, and leaked the name of a drunk pilot arrested at the airport, the court heard.

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