Sun Editor Says Police Raids Part of ‘Witch Hunt’

Trevor Kavanagh, Sun editor, told the BBC the Metropolitan Police were disproportionate in the arrests and police involved in three inquiries into journalists’ practice.
Sun Editor Says Police Raids Part of ‘Witch Hunt’
An arrangement of copies of The Sun newspaper front pages on February 13, 2012. Rupert Murdoch's British tabloid The Sun condemned police raids against its journalists as a 'witch-hunt' worthy of former communist states, and won rare support from rival newspapers. Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images
Simon Veazey
Simon Veazey
Freelance Reporter
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The associate editor of the Sun has said the paper’s publisher – News International – is the victim of a “witch-hunt”, after a number of police raids in which some of the paper’s staff were arrested and put on bail. 

He accused the Metropolitan Police of being disproportionate in their response. The Met Police rebuffed this accusation saying the three inquiries were “complex”.

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The Sun newspaper front pages on February 13, 2012
Simon Veazey
Simon Veazey
Freelance Reporter
Simon Veazey is a UK-based journalist who has reported for The Epoch Times since 2006 on various beats, from in-depth coverage of British and European politics to web-based writing on breaking news.
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