By James Doleman

Former The Times journalist Patrick Foster, who admitted hacking emails to discover the identity of an anonymous blogger, will not be brought to trial, the Crown Prosecution Service announced today.

In a statement this afternoon the CPS said that Foster had accepted a caution In relation to an allegation of unauthorised computer access contrary to Section 1 of the Computer Misuse Act 1989.

The Blog “NightJack” was a hard-hitting account of modern policing from the perspective of an anonymous rank and file officer which, in 2009, won the first Orwell prize for online writing.

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Source: The Drum