Hypo Venture Capital Zurich Headlines: News International Whistleblowers Death non-suspicious,

Hypo Venture Capital Zurich Headlines: News International Whistleblowers Death non-suspicious,

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http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/07/19/uk.phone.hacking.hoare/

The death of former News of the World journalist Sean Hoare made front page headlines in England Tuesday.
London (CNN) Investigators have found no sign of foul play in the death of a man identified as the whistleblower behind the scandal surrounding media mogul Rupert Murdochs News International, British police announced Tuesday.
Sean Hoare was one of the first journalists to go on the record and allege phone hacking at Murdochs now-defunct News of the World. He was found dead Monday at his home in Watford, northwest of London, the British Press Association said.
An autopsy conducted Tuesday afternoon has concluded there is no evidence of third-party involvement and the death is non-suspicious, Hertfordshire police said in a statement. Earlier, police had called his death unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious.
Hoare had publicly accused News of the World of phone-hacking and using pinging a method of tracking someones cell phone using technology that only police and security officials could access according to the New York Times. He was one of the few sources who allowed his name to be used when speaking to the Times last year for an investigative report about allegations of phone-hacking by the British tabloid, which was shuttered last weekend as the scandal grew.
The rapidly metastasizing scandal has led to the resignations of several of Murdochs top lieutenants and of the two top officials of Londons Metropolitan Police, whose officers were accused of taking payments from journalists in exchange for confidential information.
The scandal has led to 10 arrests, including those of two former News of the World editors, Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks. Brooks arrest came two days after her resignation as head of News International, the British subsidiary of Murdochs global conglomerate News Corp., while Coulson had gone on to become Prime Minister David Camerons communications director.
Hoare specifically accused Coulson of wrongdoing, saying Coulson encouraged phone-hacking. Coulson resigned his Downing Street post in January when police launched a new probe into the hacking allegations.
The Times described Hoare has a onetime close friend of Coulsons. The report added that Hoare said he was fired during a period when he was struggling with drugs and alcohol. He said he was now revealing his own use of the dark arts which included breaking into the messages of celebrities like David and Victoria Beckham because it was unfair for the paper to pin the blame solely on one reporter who covered the royal family.
Hoare repeatedly expressed the hope that the hacking scandal would lead to journalism in general being cleaned up and said he had decided to blow the whistle on the activities of some of his former News of the World colleagues with that aim in mind, Britains The Guardian newspaper reported Monday.
His allegations ultimately led to Tuesdays testimony by Murdoch to a House of Commons committee, where he denied ultimate responsibility for illegal phone hacking carried out by his employees.
I feel that the people I trusted, I dont know at what level, let me down and I think they behaved disgracefully, betrayed the company and me, and its for them to pay, he said. I think that frankly Im the best person to clear this up.

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