Sean Hoare, whistleblower and former reporter for Rupert Murdoch's News of the World.

In their report below, the BBC announces the sudden and "unexplained" death of Sean Hoare, a former News of the World reporter and before that a reporter at The Sun, who blew the British media and political establishment wide open. He left News of the world in 2005. In March, Mr. Hoare told the BBC that illegal phone hacking was "endemic" at News of the World, a British newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch that sold 2.7 million copies a week. In that report, the BBC led their program by depicting Mr. Hoare as a drug addict. Last week, the New York times reported that Mr. Hoare told them that News of the World paid police to use technology that could track people through their mobile phone signals.

The many who have been arrested include arrested have been: Rebekah Brooks, a Murdoch Aide and Chief Executive of his News International: Andy Coulson, Editor of News of the World; and former royal editor Clive Goodman. Rebekah Brooks is/was a close personal friend of Brown, Cameron and Blair. Coulson is central to these crimes in which he links the scandal to Prime Minister David Cameron for whom he worked as communications chief.In the week past, Britain's Top Cop, Sir Paul Stephenson and Assistant Police Commissioner, John Yates were forced to resign due to corruption and their links to Murdoch's media empire.

AP reports:

"Mushrooming allegations of immoral and criminal behavior at the paper — including bribing police officers for information, hacking into the voice mail of murdered schoolgirls' families and targeting the phones of the relatives of soldiers killed in Afghanistan and the victims of the London transit attacks. Police say they are examining 4,000 names of people who may have been targeted by the tabloid, which sells about 2.7 million copies a week."

Think there is enough motivation in all this for people burned by the whistleblower to kill him - either for revenge or to eliminate him as a witness? Well, the BBC reassures us otherwise by stating not once - but twice that Sean Hoare's death was "unexpected" but "not thought to be suspicious."

"A police spokesman said the death was currently being treated as unexplained, but was not thought to be suspicious."

With Britain's top police officials resigning over this, why are we now expected to believe their 'spokesman?'

In another report, Associated Press is quick to nail Sean Hoare's coffin lid down with an assassination of his character accusing the dead man of being,

"the kind of reporter who could knock back several whiskeys and a few lines of cocaine before filing salacious stories of celebrity misbehavior ... a hard partier who got high and drunk with the celebrities ... of starting the day with a " 'rock star's breakfast' — a line of cocaine and a Jack Daniel's ... of heavy drinking and drug-taking [which] became problematic ... angry that he was being treated like a suspect rather than a witness [and of] struggling with addiction."

In the end of their salacious story, AP tried to cover their character assassination by throwing in a tidbit of redemption Sean Hoare by quoting David Yelland, former editor of The Sun in a mixed message:

"Sean Hoare was trying to be honest, struggling with addiction. But he was a good man. My God." On a BBC program broadcast Monday night, Hoare said phone hacking was "endemic" in his former newspaper.

The corporate media and their imperial bosses are scrambling to distance themselves of the same practices employed by News of the World. They are hard pressed to bury this story as quickly and simply as Sean Hoare has been buried. Some think they will be successful. Others think this story has gone far to deep and wide and that more revelations and arrests among heads of media and government will continue to blow up in their faces.

- Les Blough, Editor

NoW phone-hacking whistle-blower Sean Hoare found dead
BBC
July 19, 2011

A former News of the World journalist who made phone-hacking allegations against the paper has been found dead at his home in Watford.

Mr Hoare had told the New York Times hacking was far more extensive than the paper acknowledged when police first investigated hacking claims.

Sean Hoare also told the BBC's Panorama phone hacking was "endemic" at the NoW.

A police spokesman said the death was currently being treated as unexplained, but was not thought to be suspicious.

Meanwhile computer hackers have tampered with the website of The Sun, which is also owned by News International.

Readers were briefly directed to a hoax story which said Rupert Murdoch has been found dead in his garden.

A group of hackers called Lulz Security, which has previously targeted games companies and US government websites, claimed responsibility via Twitter.

Visitors to the Sun website were redirected to the group's Twitter page.

News International said it was "aware" of what was happening but made no further comment.

Earlier Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates resigned after growing pressure amid the phone-hacking scandal.

It has also emerged that a former senior News of the World (NoW) journalist carried out work for Scotland Yard dealing with witnesses and suspects while employed by the paper.

Alex Marunchak was employed by the Met as a Ukrainian language interpreter and was on Scotland Yard's list of interpreters between 1980 and 2000.

According to the BBC's Panorama, the former NoW Irish edition editor obtained e-mails hacked into by a private detective in 2006. Mr Marunchak denied receiving "any unlawfully obtained material".

In a statement, the Met said it would look into the matter, saying: "We recognise that this may cause concern and that some professions may be incompatible with the role of an interpreter."

Hertfordshire Police said Mr Hoare's body was discovered after police were called to his home in Langley Road, Watford at 1040 BST on Monday.

They said: "The death is currently being treated as unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious. Police investigations into this incident are ongoing."

When he first spoke out, Mr Hoare told Panorama the then NoW editor Andy Coulson had asked him to hack phones - something Mr Coulson has denied.

Suspension move

Earlier, Met Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates resigned after he was informed he would be suspended pending an inquiry into his links with a former NoW journalist.

Mr Yates had checked the credentials of the paper's former deputy editor Neil Wallis before he too was employed by the Met.

Mr Wallis was arrested and released on bail on Thursday on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications.

Met Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson, the most senior policeman in Britain, resigned on Sunday after also facing criticism for the force's recruitment of Mr Wallis as a PR consultant.

A former News of the World journalist who made phone-hacking allegations against the paper has been found dead at his home in Watford.

Mr Hoare had told the New York Times hacking was far more extensive than the paper acknowledged when police first investigated hacking claims.

Sean Hoare also told the BBC's Panorama phone hacking was "endemic" at the NoW.

A police spokesman said the death was currently being treated as unexplained, but was not thought to be suspicious.

Meanwhile computer hackers have tampered with the website of The Sun, which is also owned by News International.

Readers were briefly directed to a hoax story which said Rupert Murdoch has been found dead in his garden.

A group of hackers called Lulz Security, which has previously targeted games companies and US government websites, claimed responsibility via Twitter.

Visitors to the Sun website were redirected to the group's Twitter page.

News International said it was "aware" of what was happening but made no further comment.

Earlier Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner John Yates resigned after growing pressure amid the phone-hacking scandal.

It has also emerged that a former senior News of the World (NoW) journalist carried out work for Scotland Yard dealing with witnesses and suspects while employed by the paper.

Alex Marunchak was employed by the Met as a Ukrainian language interpreter and was on Scotland Yard's list of interpreters between 1980 and 2000.

Mayor of London Boris Johnson said Deputy Commissioner Tim Godwin would be in charge at Scotland Yard until Sir Paul's replacement was appointed. Mr Yates will be replaced in the interim as the Met's head of counter-terrorism by Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick.

Mr Johnson said it was right for both Sir Paul and Mr Yates to stand down. Mr Yates said his conscience was clear and had "deep regret" over his resignation.

Job probe

The IPCC said four referrals relating to the police's phone-hacking investigation involved Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson, who resigned on Sunday, and Mr Yates, as well as two other former senior officers.

The BBC understands the other two officers are former Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman and former Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke.

A fifth referral relates to the alleged involvement of Mr Yates in inappropriately securing a job at the Met for the daughter of a friend.

The BBC understands the woman to be Amy Wallis, daughter of Mr Wallis, and she works in a civilian non-operational role.

In the Commons, Home Secretary Theresa May announced Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary would look into corruption in the police, and an Independent Police Complaints Commission investigation on the same issue would be part of the judge-led inquiry into the hacking scandal.

Source: BBC