By James Doleman

A police report into the “plebgate” scandal released last night appears to claim that officers accessed a journalist’s phone records without a warrant.

The final report into “Operation Alice”, the Metropolitan Police’s investigation into the leak of allegations that government minister Andrew Mitchell called officers “plebs” during an altercation at the gates of Downing St, stated that PC James Glanville was arrested as a result of analysis of the telephone records of Sun political editor Tom Newton Dunn.

The report made no mention of a warrant being applied, only that his “telecommunications data was applied for and evidenced”

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Source: The Drum