Demotix/ Terry Scott. All rights reserved.A lawyer for a senior executive of the Sun newspaper today asked the jury at his trial whether Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper group was trying to cover up the truth about its payments to public officials.
Nigel Rumfitt QC, barrister for Sun Assistant Editor (News), told the Old Bailey that the fallout from the News of the World hacking scandal had threatened to crumble Mr Murdoch's US holding group News Corp, with the loss of 46,000 jobs.
In a "desperate" attempt to save its own skin, he told the court, its British subsidiary News International had handed information on journalists below editor level to the Metropolitan Police in the hope of avoiding a corporate prosecution.
