Sun journalists ‘were treated like crime gang’

A senior figure at The Sun yesterday launched a forthright attack on police who arrested five Sun journalists, claiming his colleagues had been treated like “members of an organised crime gang”.

The journalists were among eight people arrested at the weekend over allegations of improper payments to police and public officials.

Trevor Kavanagh, the newspaper’s associate editor, said the police investigation into alleged press malpractice was regarded by many as a “witch-hunt” and suggested that free speech in Britain was under attack.