Sunday Mirror faces hacking probe It comes after former Sunday Mirror and News of the World journalist Dan Evans last week became the ninth journalist to be charged under the Metropolitan Police's Operation Weeting investigation into alleged phone hacking. He is accused of two counts of conspiring with others to intercept communications in their transmission, one of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office and one of perverting the course of justice. In March, former Sunday Mirror editor Tina Weaver, who worked at the paper between 2001 and 2012, was arrested in a dawn raid. Ms Weaver, who was heavily pregnant at the time of her arrest, was held with former deputy editor of the newspaper Mark Thomas, current People editor James Scott and deputy editor Nick Buckley. All four were released on bail. The allegations against Ms Weaver, Mr Thomas, Mr Scott and Mr Buckley focus on the Sunday Mirror in 2003 and 2004. At the time of their arrest, lawyers representing victims of phone hacking said they had been contacted by police to say they were looking into new claims relating to the now defunct News of the World's feature desk and Trinity Mirror titles. During his inquiry into press standards, Lord Justice Leveson suggested that phone hacking at the Sunday Mirror's sister daily paper may well have started in the late 1990s. He described Piers Morgan, who edited the Daily Mirror from 1995 to 2004, as "utterly unpersuasive" after he claimed to have had no knowledge of alleged phone hacking there. It was reported last month that Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper business has been under investigation since March 2012 as a corporate suspect, but neither the Metropolitan Police nor News UK have officially confirmed that claim. Sue Akers, the officer leading Scotland Yard's illegal newsgathering probe, told the Leveson Inquiry that she had asked for legal advice in respect of "both individual and corporate offences." But she stopped short of announcing that the company was under investigation when she gave evidence last summer. A Scotland Yard spokesman said he could not confirm Trinity Mirror's statement or whether News International, which has recently been rebranded as News UK, is under investigation as a corporate suspect. He said: "As with any investigation we carry out, we do not identify suspects or anybody arrested or anybody we may we wish to speak to. That goes for corporations the same as it does for individuals.