Press Association Royal Reporter Arrested in UK Phone Hacking Case

Press Association royal reporter Laura Elston was arrested when she attended an appointment at a central London police station at around 3pm.

Scotland Yard said Elston was questioned on suspicion of intercepting communications, contrary to section 1 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) 2000.

She was later released on police bail to reappear in early October.

It is not known if Elston has ever worked at the News of the World, which up to this point has been the main focus of Operation Weeting.

On Thursday last week a 39-year-old woman was arrested at her home in West Yorkshire by Scotland Yard officers as part of Operation Weeting, on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications contrary to section 1 of the Criminal Law Act 1977. She was released later the same day after questioning at a West Yorkshire police station.

The woman, believed to be Terenia Taras, contributed more than 30 stories for the News of the World as a freelance between 1998 and 2004, although Scotland Yard would not confirm this.