Ex-Sun reporter first charged in hacking inquiry
A FORMER reporter with The Sun newspaper has become the first person to be charged under a national inquiry into allegations of computer hacking and other privacy breaches.
Ben Ashford, 34, has been charged with possession of criminal property and unauthorised access to computer material, Scotland Yard said. It is the first charge to be brought under Operation Tuleta, the Metropolitan Police investigation that is being run alongside inquiries into alleged phone hacking and corrupt payments to public officials.
Ashford, from Coulsdon, Greater London, will appear before Westminster Magistrates’ Court on October 15.