News International’s longstanding legal manager Tom Crone has left the company, with the news emerging as parent company News Corporation withdrew its takeover bid for BSkyB and Prime Minister David Cameron confirmed details of the public inquiry to be held on the phone-hacking scandal.
Crone spent more than 20 years with News International, providing legal advice on editorial matters at both The Sun and the News of the World (NoW), which published its final issue last weekend (10 July) after being closed in the wake of the hacking row engulfing the 168-year old paper.
