Fairfax: No police contact with our exec over phone hacking

Fairfax Media today said it understands that its head of video Ricky Sutton – a former news editor of News of The World – has not been contacted by British Police over voicemail hacking activities by the newspaper.

The comment follows yesterday’s story in Crikey that Sutton was expected to be questioned.

According to an article in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, Sutton – who worked for the British tabloid from 1997 to 2004 – was only news editor for nine months, from July 2003 to April 2004.

This week’s furore over phone hacking relates to the newspaper allegedly accessing and deleting the voicemails of a missing teenager who it later emerged had been murdered. This took place in 2002.