18/10/2013

Sun Journalist Faces MP Phone Theft Charges

A Sun journalist is to be charged with the theft of a mobile phone from an MP in 2010.

52-year-old journalist Nick Parker is accused of one count of receiving stolen goods and one of unauthorised access of a computer.

Another man, 29-year-old Michael Ankers, of south-west London, is charged with one count of theft of a phone belonging to Labour MP Siobhain McDonagh.

Both men are due to appear before Westminster Magistrates' Court on November 06.

(MH/IT)

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