Sun man held in police cash probe

Detectives are running two operations to look into phone-hacking and illegal police payment claims

Detectives investigating claims of payments to police officers have arrested a 48-year old News International journalist.

The man is understood to be Jamie Pyatt, who works for The Sun.

He was arrested by detectives working on Operation Elveden, which is looking at allegations of inappropriate payments to police.

Operation Elveden is running in parallel with Operation Weeting – the phone-hacking inquiry.

The arrested man was cautioned under Section 1 of the Prevention of Corruption Act. This is the sixth arrest by the Operation Elveden team.

He was arrested at about 10:30 GMT at an address outside London and taken to a west London police station.

Meanwhile, police said on Thursday that the number of possible victims of phone-hacking by the News of the World now stood at close to 5,800.

Several high-profile figures have taken legal action against News International since the issue emerged.

A High Court judge is due to hear evidence from a group of the claimants at a trial in January, with any rulings he makes expected to provide a blueprint for how other claims are dealt with.

A separate public inquiry – set up by Prime Minister David Cameron and headed by senior judge Lord Justice Leveson – is also due to hear evidence on media ethics and hacking over the next year.

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