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J O U R N A L I S M W E E K LY
www.pressgazette.co.uk 8 February 2013
Casburn family says
her jailing will scare
off whistleblowers
BY ANDREW PUGH
The brother of April Casburn, the Met
officer convicted of offering to sell
information to the News of the World
(NoW), has warned whistleblowers will be
too scared to approach journalists after his
sister was jailed for 15 months.
Phillip Casburn has vowed to relinquish
his British citizenship over what he
believes to be a draconian sentence and
criticised the prison service for placing
her on an open wing.
And he remains adamant his sister
did not ask for money when she
called the NoW in September 2010
offering information on Scotland Yard's
investigation into phone-hacking.
He is also highly critical of NoW
publisher News International's decision
to allow
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