article_snippet: Britain’s top prosecutor was yesterday forced to deny conducting a ‘witch-hunt’ against journalists after tens of millions of pounds were spent investigating journalists.
article_snippet: Police and prosecutors have been criticised for arresting journalists on suspicion of a range of offences in the wake of phone-hacking allegations, rather than concentrating on terrorism, violent crime and serious fraud.
article_snippet: An ongoing four-year investigation into alleged wrongdoing by reporters had cost £33.5million up to the end of September 2014.
article_snippet: Conservative MP Michael Ellis said: ‘Are you conducting – you, the Crown Prosecution Service – a witch-hunt?
article_snippet: An ongoing four-year investigation into alleged wrongdoing by reporters had cost £33.5million up to the end of September 2014 (file picture)
article_snippet: It is being suggested by more and more people that a witch-hunt is being conducted against journalists and celebrities.
article_snippet: Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders said: ‘We are not conducting a witch-hunt against anyone, be it journalists or celebrities. '