Stuart Kuttner (born 1939/1940) is a former newspaper editor. He worked as the news editor for the ''

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'' before joining the '' News of the World'' newspaper in 1980 first as a deputy editor, then as

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. He held the position for 22 years before stepping down from his post in 2009 and retiring to

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. He was arrested on 2 August 2011, in connection with the

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, but has now been acquitted. He was 71 at the time of his arrest.

Sarah's Law

Kuttner was closely involved with the campaign for

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. It was for this work that he and a colleague were awarded the "team of the year" prize at the 2002

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. Upon leaving the ''News of the World'' he stated that he would continue to work with the paper on "specialised projects" including campaigning for parents to be able to find out if registered sex offenders are resident in their area.

Arrest

Kuttner was arrested by appointment on 2 August 2011 by officers involved in

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on suspicion of corruption, contrary to Section 1 of the

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and on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, contrary to Section 1 (1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977, the same charges as had been laid against former News of the World editor

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just over two weeks earlier. He was initially released under police bail until the end of the month but was taken into custody again on 30 August and bailed until an unspecified date in September. On 24 July 2012, he was formally charged with conspiracy to intercept communications between 3 October 2000 to 9 August 2006 without lawful authority regarding communications of

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and

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, MP. Since police renewed investigations in 2011, 90 people have been arrested and 16 formally charged with crimes, including Kuttner, in conjunction with illegal acquisition of confidential information. His trial started in October 2013, and in June 2014 he was found not guilty. The former archbishop of Canterbury,

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, had defended him in court, saying "Stuart was and is a good man. He is a man of integrity ... He is a man whose Jewish ethics went through his life and echoed mine as a deeply Christian ethic.

On 15 October 2014, Kuttner lost his bid to recover the legal fees he had incurred as a result of being a co-defendant in the phone-hacking trial. Mr Justice Saunders said he was satisfied that the conduct of Kuttner and his co-defendant, Charlie Brooks (racehorse trainer), Charlie Brooks, had "brought suspicion on themselves and misled the prosecution into thinking that the case against them was stronger than it was".

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Sarah's Law

Arrest

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