Rebekah Brooks, the former chief of News Corp.'s British newspapers is watched by a police officer as she leaves after attending a hearing in a corruption case at the Old Bailey court in the City of London, Friday, March 8, 2013. Brooks appeared in court Friday to face charges over alleged conspiracy to bribe a public official to obtain information. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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Rebekah Brooks, the former chief of News Corp.'s British newspapers is watched by a police officer as she leaves after attending a hearing in a corruption case at the Old Bailey court in the City of London, Friday, March 8, 2013. Brooks appeared in court Friday to face charges over alleged conspiracy to bribe a public official to obtain information. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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Andy Coulson, the ex-communications chief for Prime Minister David Cameron, arrives for a bribery hearing at the Old Bailey court in the City of London, Friday, March 8, 2013, in London. Coulson is appearing to answer charges relating to the alleged requesting and authorising of payments to public officials in exchange for information, including a royal phone directory known as the "green book". Coulson denies the charges.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
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Rebekah Brooks, the former chief of News Corp.'s British newspapers, is watched by a policeman as she leaves a hearing at the Old Bailey court in the City of London, Friday, March 8, 2013, in London. Brooks is appearing in court to face charges over alleged conspiracy to bribe a public official to obtain information. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
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Rebekah Brooks, the former chief of News Corp.'s British newspapers, centre with red hair, arrives for a hearing in her phone hacking case at the Old Bailey court in the City of London, Friday, March 8, 2013, in London. Brooks is appearing in court to face charges over alleged conspiracy to bribe a public official to obtain information, and Brooks denies the charge. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
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Rebekah Brooks, the former chief of News Corp.'s British newspapers leaves after attending a hearing in a corruption case at the Old Bailey court in the City of London, Friday, March 8, 2013. Brooks appeared in court Friday to face charges over alleged conspiracy to bribe a public official to obtain information. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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Andy Coulson, the ex-communications chief for Prime Minister David Cameron, arrives for a bribery hearing at the Old Bailey court in the City of London, Friday, March 8, 2013, in London. Coulson is appearing to answer charges relating to the alleged requesting and authorising of payments to public officials in exchange for information, including a royal phone directory known as the "green book". Coulson denies the charges. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
UK ex-policeman, prison officer sold info to paper
LONDON (AP) — A former police officer and a prison officer have admitted selling information to a British tabloid belonging to
Rupert Murdoch, pleading guilty Friday to misconduct in a public office.
Policeman Alan Tierney admitted selling information to The Sun newspaper about arrests including the case involving Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood. Prison officer Richard Trunkfield admitted providing the tabloid with information about a prominent prisoner.
They were arrested as part of the Operation Elveden investigation into allegations that newspapers were paying police and other officials for information.
The bribery inquiry is running alongside investigations into phone hacking and computer hacking sparked by revelations that reporters at Murdoch's now-shuttered News of the World routinely intercepted voicemails of those in the public eye.
Almost 100 people have been arrested and about 20 charged over the scandal, including journalists, police officers, former Murdoch executive Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, Prime Minister David Cameron's former communications chief.
Brooks, 44, and Coulson, 45, both appeared in court Friday for short hearings. The cases were adjourned until next month.
So far, one person has been convicted as a result of the investigations — a senior detective found guilty earlier this year of trying to pass police information to the News of the World.
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