Sun journalists to appear in court over alleged payments to public officials The Sun journalists Tom Wells, Neil Millard and Brandon Malinsky and Graham Brough, formerly of the Mirror, are to appear in court. Three Sun journalists and one former Daily Mirror journalist are due to appear at Westminster magistrates court on Monday on charges connected to alleged payments to public officials for stories. The Sun journalists Tom Wells, Neil Millard and Brandon Malinsky and Graham Brough, formerly of the Mirror, are among eight to be charged as part of Scotland Yards investigation into unlawful payments at newspapers. Reggie Nunkoo, Mark Blake and Rosemary Collier, whose jobs have not been identified by the Crown Prosecution Service, will also stand alongside them in the dock accused of misconduct. The eighth individual to appear in the dock has been named as Sam Azouelos, a Met officer who faces one count of misconduct in public office between 3 July 2006 and 30 April 2010. They are among 52 journalists and public officials to be charged and 84 individuals to be arrested since Scotland Yards Operation Elveden was launched in 2011. Wells, the Suns home affairs correspondent, is facing three counts of conspiring to cause misconduct in public office in a period spanning 2008 to 2010. He is to be charged alongside Blake with unnamed others and with a single public official who has not been named. Millard, a Sun reporter, is facing three counts of conspiring to cause misconduct in public office between 2010 and 2011. He has been named alongside Malinsky in relation to one count of conspiring with Nunkoo. On the second count, Millard has been accused of conspiring along with Wells and unnamed others, while the third count he is facing with Collier, whose place of work has not been provided by the CPS. Brough, the former Mirror journalist who left the paper in 2010, has been told he will be summoned to appear in court in relation to a conspiracy to cause misconduct in public office alongside Nunkoo over an alleged offence that took place between 2010 and 2011.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:41:12 +0000
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