Former News of the World showbiz reporter Sean Hoare was today found dead inside his home in Watford, England.Hoare was the first named journalist to allege that former editor Andy Coulson was aware of the phone hacking scandals.
Hertfordshire Police said that Sean Hoare’s body was discovered at 10:40AM at his home in Langley Rd, Watford after reports came in to them regarding his whereabouts.
The police described his death as unexplained, however they did not believe it to be suspicious. They said investigations are continuing into weather he killed himself.
Mr. Hoare was the first whistle-blower in the phone hacking scandal, he informed the New York Times that Andy Coulson – The Prime Minister’s former communications chief – had encouraged him to hack telephones. Andy Coulson has of course denied the allegations.
The timing of this could not be worse for Britain’s Prime Minister, having to cut short his trip to Africa in order to come back and deal with all this.
This grim finding comes on a day in which Scotland Yard has been left in turmoil in the past 24 hours, losing its commissioner and its head of counter terror operations John Yates who decided to jump before he was pushed.
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