A phone-hacking suspect used to work as informer for senior detectives while he was the chief crime reporter at the News of the World.

Neville Thurlbeck, a senior reporter and news editor at the paper, passed on information to detectives and was given access to data from the Police National Computer to help with stories in return.
The activities will trigger fresh concerns over links between the now defunct tabloid and the Metropolitan Police.
It emerged yesterday that a senior executive at the News of the World moonlighted as an interpreter for the Metropolitan Police for 20 years while still at the newspaper.
Alex Marunchak, an executive editor on the Sunday tabloid, worked for the force between 1980 and 2000 translating for Ukrainian suspects.
Mr Thurlbeck, who was arrested on suspicion of illegally accessing voicemail messages in April, worked as an unpaid police source under the code name "George".

 

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