article_snippet: - Civil servants feared the secret Cyril Smith's police file might be made public in 1982 – when a burglary at the Fleet Street offices of The Sun newspaper revealed the editor was in possession of a copy.
article_snippet: This revelation will lead to speculation that the break-in was linked to attempts to cover up Smith’s crimes.
article_snippet: the case also describes a little-known break-in at the The Sun newspaper in 1982 that led police to discover ‘the editor of The Sun had a copy of the 1970 police report’.