April 10 2010
The Guardian
An official inquiry has been launched into the suspected interception of voicemail messages around the tabloid newspaper story of the England football captain, John Terry, and his alleged affair with a French model.
The inquiry, which is being led from the Information Commissioner’s Office, will cause alarm in Fleet Street, where newspapers and [...]
April 10 2010
The Guardian
On Friday January 29th, in a courtroom in London, Vanessa Perroncel’s life changed. She wasn’t in court. She had nobody there to speak for her. But when Mr Justice Tugendhat decided that the England football captain, John Terry, had no right to suppress a story about his alleged sex life, Perroncel found [...]
The Guardian
April 6 2010
Something very worrying has been going on at Scotland Yard. We now know that in dealing with the phone-hacking affair at the News of the World, they cut short their original inquiry; supressed evidence; misled the public and the press; concealed information and broke the law. Why?
The problem goes right back to [...]
The Guardian
April 5 2010
Police who investigated the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World obtained previously undisclosed telephone records which showed that ‘a vast number’ of public figures had had their voicemail accessed – and then decided not to pursue the evidence, according to official papers seen by the Guardian.
The revelation – contained in [...]
The Guardian
March 10 2010
The News of the World last night was accused of buying silence in the phone-hacking scandal after they agreed to pay more than £1 million to persuade the celebrity PR agent Max Clifford to drop his legal action over the interception of his voicemail messages.
The settlement – forecast in the Guardian last [...]
The Guardian
February 25th 2010
David Cameron’s communications director, Andy Coulson, will today come under fresh pressure to defend his editorship of the News of the World and his knowledge about the illegal activities of his journalists amid new allegations about the paper’s involvement with private detectives who broke the law.
The Guardian has learned that while Coulson [...]
The Guardian
February 25th 2010
When David Cameron’s media adviser, Andy Coulson, was asked last July about his experience as a journalist with the various forms of illegal activity which are said to have occurred in Fleet Street’s newsrooms, he answered clearly: “I have never had any involvement in it at all.”
As Coulson now prepares for an [...]
The Guardian
February 16th 2010
The News of the World is believed to be planning to settle a court case which threatens to disclose further evidence of the involvement of its journalists in illegal information-gathering by private investigators.
According to one source at the paper, executives have devised a plan to block the case by offering money to [...]
The Guardian
February 2 2010
Three leading mobile phone companies have told the Guardian that they have discovered a total of more than a hundred customers whose voicemail was accessed by the private investigator and the journalist at the centre of the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World.
This directly contradicts the official version of events [...]
The Guardian
November 9 2009
(Following publication of the Press Complaints Commission inquiry into phone-hacking at the News of the World)
If you write news stories, you know sometimes they’ll be attacked. But
this is the weirdest attack I’ve experienced in 33 years of writing: the
Press Complaints Commission has thrown plenty of punches from different directions but not one [...]
