Met chiefs given £300,000 payoffs
Senior Metropolitan Police figures who resigned in the wake of the phone hacking scandal received payoffs totalling more than £300,000.
Met Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson, Assistant Commissioner John Yates and press chief Dick Fedorcio all stepped down from the force in the last 14 months over their links to the media.
The Met's accounts, disclosed by the Daily Telegraph, reveal that Sir Paul received £176,838 "compensation for loss of office", Mr Fedorcio received £50,503 and Mr Yates, who resigned over his relationship with former News of the World deputy editor Neil Wallis, was given a £86,382 payoff.