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”.

Police Scotland said the 43-year-old was arrested after officers searched a property in Edinburgh on 25 November.

McCann appeared at Edinburgh sheriff court the next day but made no plea. He was remanded in custody overnight and appeared in court on 27 November, charged with “threatening or abusive behaviour” under section 38(1) of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010, and granted bail.

McCann joined the Times in 2018 as news editor, before becoming deputy editor the following year. H

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