Sun editor charged with conspiracy

THE executive editor of The Sun newspaper has been charged in an ongoing British police investigation of phone hacking and corruption.

Prosecutors said on Thursday Fergus Shanahan has been charged with "conspiring to commit misconduct in public office".

A statement says the criminal charge is based on the allegation that between August 2006 and August 2007 Shanahan authorised a journalist to make two payments totalling STG7000 (about $A10,416) to a public official in exchange for information.

He had been arrested for questioning early last year. Prosecutors say Shanahan is scheduled to appear in court on May 8.

The phone hacking probe began after a journalist and private detective at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid were found to have hacked into the voicemail messages of aides to the royal family.

The investigation into illegal payments by journalists to public officials, codenamed Operation Elveden, was set up following the exposure of scandalous practices at the News of the World.

Dozens of people were arrested as part of three probes related to the phone-hacking scandal: Operation Weeting into phone hacking, Operation Elveden, and Operation Tuleta into computer hacking.

Among those charged are Prime Minister David Cameron's former media chief Andy Coulson, a former editor of the News of the World; and his predecessor Rebekah Brooks, who rose to become chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper division.

Shanahan, 58, was Rebekah Brooks' deputy during her editorship of the Sun from 2003 to 2009. He is now a comment writer.

"Following a careful review of the evidence, we have concluded that Fergus Shanahan, who served as an editor at the Sun newspaper, should be charged with an offence of conspiring to commit misconduct in public office," said Crown Prosecution Service legal adviser Alison Levitt.

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