Under the headline, ‘Phone Hacking: former NotW journalist ‘approved bribe for Huntley guard” the Telegraph today refers to an email of March 7, 2009, alleged to have been sent by Matt Nixson, a former features editor with the News Of The World.
In that email Nixson is alleged to have told a reporter, Matthew Acton, to pay one of the officials who had access to a child murderer in prison and then to “chuck her some more money later”.
The article goes on to allege that Mr Nixson asked that the payment be arranged “very carefully,” since the company had a “forensic new accountant who doesn’t brook any funny business”.
All of which implies that the News Of The World’s previous accountant took a different attitude to ‘funny business’.