Mysteries of Data Pool 3 give Rupert Murdoch a whole new headache


The arrest of four Sun journalists threatens to open a fresh phase of the scandal surrounding News International

Nick Davies
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 29 January 2012 15.00 EST

On Saturday morning, the police arrested four journalists who have worked for Rupert Murdoch. For a while, it looked as though these were yet more arrests of people related to the News of the World but then it became clear that this was something much more significant.

This may be the moment when the scandal that closed the NoW finally started to pose a potential threat to at least one of Murdoch's three other UK newspaper titles: the Sun, the Times and the Sunday Times.

The four men arrested on Saturday are not linked to the NoW. They come from the Sun, from the top of the tree – the current head of news and his crime editor, the former managing editor and deputy editor.