Raoul Simons

Raoul Simons, 35, was, until at least 2010, deputy football editor of The Times. He graduated from Leeds University in around 1997, with a degree in History and Politics. He features in their records as an "outstanding alumnus", because of his arrival at the London Evening Standard as sports editor.

In 2009 he joined The Times.  In September 2010, the New York Times made public an audio tape, edited, which they said was in the hands of Scotland Yard, featuring Glenn Mulcaire, private investigator, instructing someone, believed to be Raoul while he was at the Standard, in the mechanics of listening in to phone messages to former PFA chairman Gordon Taylor. (Go to the left hand side of the link, under multimedia).

Raoul was arrested this morning, not by appointment, by officers from Operation Weeting. He was released on bail.