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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Severin Carrell and Kyriakos Petrakos

Editor of Times and Sunday Times in Scotland is charged over ‘indecent communications’

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Police Scotland said the 43-year-old was arrested after officers searched a property in Edinburgh on 25 November. Photograph: Iain Masterton/Alamy

The editor of the Times and Sunday Times in Scotland has been suspended and charged over “indecent online communications”.

News UK, which owns the newspapers, announced that David McCann had been suspended after he was “made the subject of a criminal investigation unrelated to his work”.

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