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| Sunday Mirror man one of two held in Elveden pay probe | Sunday Mirror man one of two held in Elveden pay probe |
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| Detectives investigating corrupt payments have arrested two journalists, including Sunday Mirror crime reporter Justin Penrose. | Detectives investigating corrupt payments have arrested two journalists, including Sunday Mirror crime reporter Justin Penrose. |
| Daily Star Sunday deputy news editor Tom Savage is the second man being held, the BBC understands. | |
| Officers from Operation Elveden - the Metropolitan Police probe into alleged inappropriate payments to police and public officials - made the arrests. | Officers from Operation Elveden - the Metropolitan Police probe into alleged inappropriate payments to police and public officials - made the arrests. |
| The men are being questioned at police stations in Kent and south-east London. | The men are being questioned at police stations in Kent and south-east London. |
| The BBC's Danny Shaw understands that the second journalist arrested is Mr Savage but his name has not been officially confirmed by Scotland Yard. | |
| There has been no comment so far from Northern and Shell, the company which owns the Star. | |
| 'Conspiracy to corrupt' | |
| A spokesman for the Met said: "Today's arrests relate to suspected payments to a public official and are not about seeking journalists to reveal confidential sources in relation to information that has been obtained legitimately. | A spokesman for the Met said: "Today's arrests relate to suspected payments to a public official and are not about seeking journalists to reveal confidential sources in relation to information that has been obtained legitimately. |
| "A 37-year-old man was arrested at his home in Kent, and a 34-year-old man at his home in south-east London at approximately 06:00 this morning on suspicion of conspiracy to corrupt (contrary to the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906) and of conspiracy to cause misconduct in a public office (contrary to common law)." | "A 37-year-old man was arrested at his home in Kent, and a 34-year-old man at his home in south-east London at approximately 06:00 this morning on suspicion of conspiracy to corrupt (contrary to the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906) and of conspiracy to cause misconduct in a public office (contrary to common law)." |
| A statement from Trinity Mirror - the company that publishes the Sunday Mirror - confirmed the arrest of Mr Penrose and said: "We are cooperating fully with the police." | A statement from Trinity Mirror - the company that publishes the Sunday Mirror - confirmed the arrest of Mr Penrose and said: "We are cooperating fully with the police." |
| Mr Penrose has worked for the Sunday Mirror since 2004, taking on the role of crime correspondent in 2006. | |
| In previous written evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics, Mr Penrose said the newspaper never paid police for stories. | |
| Commenting on how journalists and police should communicate, he wrote: "The main ethical issue is that we never pay police officers for stories, or seek to put the police in a position where they feel that they should provide information to us in exchange for anything that they consider that they are getting from us." | |
| Twenty-nine bailed | |
| Mr Penrose is not the only Mirror journalist to be questioned recently by Operation Elveden police. | |
| On 4 July, former Daily Mirror journalist Greig Box-Turnbull, 37, who worked for the newspaper until March, was one of three people arrested by officers investigating corrupt payments. | |
| A prison officer, 46, and a 50-year-old woman were also held. | A prison officer, 46, and a 50-year-old woman were also held. |
| Some 41 people have been arrested as part of Operation Elveden, which is being run in conjunction with Operation Weeting, which is looking into phone hacking. | Some 41 people have been arrested as part of Operation Elveden, which is being run in conjunction with Operation Weeting, which is looking into phone hacking. |
| And in total, 34 journalists, former journalists and newspaper executives have been formally arrested as part of the phone hacking, corrupt payments and computer misuse investigations. | And in total, 34 journalists, former journalists and newspaper executives have been formally arrested as part of the phone hacking, corrupt payments and computer misuse investigations. |
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