Editor of Times and Sunday Times in Scotland is charged over ‘indecent communications’

Thu, 11 Dec 2025

David McCann, 43, was arrested after police searched his flat in Edinburgh

The editor of the Times and Sunday Times in Scotland has been suspended and charged over “indecent online communications”.

News UK, which owns the newspapers, announced that David McCann had been suspended after he was “made the subject of a criminal investigation unrelated to his work”.