Phone-hacking whistle-blower found dead

FYI, in Britain deaths are handled somewhat differently from in the US. For the police to say they do not suspect foul play means that there are no obvious signs of a murder. However, any questionable death (including a suicide) can become the subject of an 'inquest'; this is an inquiry conducted by a coroner who has wide-ranging legal powers to gather evidence or compel testimony, although not to prosecute. If an inquest finds that a death was in fact a homicide, then the coroner's findings are handed over to the Crown Prosecution Service, which operates similarly to an American prosecutor's office. In short, law enforcement officers do not have the say on whether a death is or is not a homicide; their remarks in this case only indicate a lack of certainty that is is.

Hoare was known to have had a long struggle with substance abuse and it's entirely possible that he just drank himself to death...but there will be an inquest, possibly a public one given the circumstances.

You've just got to love when a key suspect and the initial whistle blower winds up dead and their death is "not considered suspicious".

This might just be the naive opinion of a common man, but shouldn't it be mandatory that when anyone dies in a criminal investigation it must be considered suspicious until proven non-suspicious.

I'm sorry, but this is a case where corruption in police and government officials isn't only clear, but it's visible from miles away. Yet it's being permitted that a whistle-blowers death is considered "not suspicious"

Am I the only person who read this headline and thought it was an article about John Draper, a.k.a. Cap'n Crunch?