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Editors’ Biographies
Tom Crone
Tom Crone is Legal Manager of News International plc, publishers of The Sun, News of the
World, The Times and The Sunday Times. After 5 years as a practising Barrister, he became
an in-house lawyer for Mirror Group in 1980 and ‘jumped ship’ to join News Group,
publishers of The Sun and News of the World in 1985. Since then, he has been at the centre
of numerous high profile media cases: Robert Maxwell, Elton John, Ian Botham, George
Michael, Sonia Sutcliffe, Bill Roache, Gillian Taylforth, Bruce Grobelaar, Thompson and
Venables (the Bulger Killers), and Her Majesty The Queen (twice).
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