![Plymouth journalist Ben Ashford cleared of phone hacking charges]()
An ex-Sun reporter who now works in Plymouth has been cleared of plundering a stolen mobile phone for flirty texts and pictures between a PR woman and a well-known television personality. Ben Ashford, 35, was accused of handling stolen property and accessing data on the woman's iPhone after it was stolen during a night out in Manchester in October 2009. The Old Bailey heard he was handed the phone by Sameena Rashid, who had contacted the newspaper about a potential story based on its...
Reported by Plymouth Herald 27 minutes ago.