OK. This turns out to be Stuart Kuttner, former managing director of News of the World, but not a major figure in Newscorp terms: I'll update this diary below the fold if anything big comes of this. Meanwhile, we have to bit our time for the process of law to work its way up the Newscorp empire
This could be big and I'll update as more comes in:
A key new arrest has been made in the ongoing phone-hacking scandal. Could it be James Murdoch himself?
The unnamed man apparently did not know he was going to be taken into custody when he arrived by appointment at a police station in London at 11am on Tuesday to answer questions about the phone-hacking scandal.Police from both Operation Weeting, the Metropolitan police investigation into alleged phone hacking, and Elveden, the investigation into allegations of inappropriate payments to police, are understood to have been involved.
The development is the latest in a scandal that has already caused the closure of a 168-year-old newspaper, the News of the World, and the resignation of two top police officers, as well as 10 arrests.
The man at the centre of the new arrest is believed to have been a key figure at News International. He is understood to have been arrested on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, contrary to Section1 (1) Criminal Law Act 1977, and on suspicion of corruption allegations contrary to Section 1 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906.
Looking at the Guardian's byline, it sounds more like a former employee though:
Unnamed man, believed to have been a key figure at News International, taken into custody for questioning
Is Les Hinton in the UK?
UPDATE: Stand down: The unnamed man is believed to be former News of the World managing editor Stuart Kuttner.