Reporter on trial over payments to police officer says all his stories were justifiable in the public interest. A police contact tipped him off about Jimmy Savile abusing children - but the Sun wouldn't run the story.
All the stories a police officer funelled to the Sun for cash were in the public interest, the reporter who made the payments told the paper's corruption trial today.
Jamie Pyatt, the Sun's Thames Valley reporter, said he had not received a single complaint about any of the stories for which the constable provided information or photographs.
Mr Pyatt, 52, is on trial at the Old Bailey in London for aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office by paying Officer 2044 for stories published in the Sun between 2002 and 2011. (more...)
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