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Man arrested during phone hacking probe bailed

Friday, August 31, 2012
8:47 AM

A man arrested in connection with a police investigation into phone hacking has been bailed.

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Officers from Operation Weeting, the Metropolitan Police Service’s inquiry into the hacking of telephone voicemail boxes, arrested the man in south-west London yesterday morning.

The 60-year-old man was arrested at his home address at around 6.45am on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications contrary to Section 1 of the Criminal Law Act 1977.

He was interviewed at a south London police station and bailed to return on a date in mid-October.

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