Published by the Guardian
December 13 2011
A week ago, I discovered that the police had found new evidence about the hacking of Milly Dowler’s phone – lots of it.
In London, Scotland Yard had finally gained access to 300m emails on News International’s servers. In Surrey, officers had retrieved all the logs and records from the inquiry [...]
Published by the Guardian
December 10 2011
with David Leigh
Fresh details of the hacking of Milly Dowler’s phone by the News of the World have been obtained by the police, the Guardian has learned.
According to sources familiar with the case, officers from Operation Weeting have unearthed logs detailing the hacked messages from tearful members of the murdered [...]
Published by the Guardian
November 11 2011
with Amelia Hill
James Murdoch was mistaken yesterday when he told MPs that he did not believe News International had, to date, admitted liability for any kind of computer or email hacking, the Guardian can reveal.
The executive chairman of News International told the committee he “didn’t think” the company had engaged [...]
Published by the Guardian
November 8 2011
The News of the World hired a specialist private investigator to run covert surveillance on two of the lawyers representing phone-hacking victims as part of an operation to put pressure on them to stop their work.
The investigator secretly videoed Mark Lewis and Charlotte Harris as well as family members and [...]
Published by the Guardian
August 17 2011
Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch and their former editor Andy Coulson all face embarrassing new allegations of dishonesty and cover-up after the publication of an explosive letter written by the News of the World’s disgraced royal correspondent, Clive Goodman.
In the letter, written four years ago but only published yesterday, Goodman claims [...]
Published by the Guardian
July 28 2011
with Amelia Hill
Sara Payne, whose eight-year-old daughter Sarah was abducted and murdered in July 2000, has been told by Scotland Yard that they have found evidence to suggest she was targeted by the News of the World’s investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, who specialised in the hacking of voicemail.
Police had earlier told [...]
Published by the Guardian
July 23 2011
with David Leigh
Many angry victims of the News of the World’s journalism used to try their hand at suing, and the paper’s battle-hardened lawyers were good at seeing them off. Still, they regularly paid out pounds 1.2m a year on a variety of libel claims.
But in May 2008, Tom Crone, [...]
Published by the Guardian
July 22 2011
with David Leigh
Tom Crone and Colin Myler must have been well aware yesterday that the statement they were about to make could prove fatal to James Murdoch.
When the Guardian pointed out in the wake of his parliamentary testimony that Murdoch’s son had sought to blame them for concealment, a friend [...]
Published by the Guardian
July 21 2011
with Caroline Davies and Lisa O’Carroll
News International has terminated “with immediate effect” its arrangement to pay the legal fees of Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator at the centre of the phone-hacking scandal.
It comes after James Murdoch told the Commons culture, media and sport select committee he was “as surprised as [...]
Published by the Guardian
July 21 2011
With David Leigh
James Murdoch appears to have given misleading parliamentary testimony about a key phone-hacking cover-up, according to evidence obtained by the Guardian.
Rupert Murdoch’s son sought to deny that “astronomic sums” had been secretly paid out to a hacking victim as hush-money. He told MPs the company’s legal advice was [...]
