Daily Mail columnist Richard Littlejohn has weighed in to attack the police and News Corp executives Will Lewis and Simon Greenberg in the wake of the arrests on Saturday of five Sun journalists.

Attacking News Corp’s Management and Standards Committee, which has been handing over the evidence against journalists to police, Littlejohn said:

They are not being afforded the opportunity to give any explanation before they are handed over to the police, arrested and hauled off to the nick.