Arthur C Clarke: Mysterious World

'The News of the World spiked an exclusive story exposing the science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke as a paedophile, according to a new book about life inside the newspaper whose closure was announced a year ago today.
'In Hack, an account of his nerve-shredding days as a reporter on the News of the World and then the Sunday Mirror, Graham Johnson claims that although the NOTW prided itself on outing pederasts, editors made an exception for Mr Clarke because he was a friend of Rupert Murdoch.
'Through BSkyB, the tycoon commercially exploited the futurologist's theory that satellites would be ideal for communications and praised him in public. As a result, according to Mr Johnson, who by that time had been sacked by the NOTW and had joined the Sunday Mirror, a story by reporter Roger Insall about Mr Clarke's alleged abuse of adolescent boys was never published for fear of upsetting the proprietor...'

The Independent.
The story, run in 1998, was considered "news-worthy" as Arthur C Clarke had just been awarded a knighthood.
Phil Hall, then editor of The News of the World, confirms it was commissioned, but was not run "for legal reasons".
Sri Lankan police and Interpol began an investigation into the Mirror's claims, but later said there was "no evidence" - partly as the main "evidence" was the Sunday Mirror's claim to have a taped admission which, when they were asked to hand over copies to police, then went "missing".