Hacking inquiry – Hacked off

The commissioner of the Metropolitan Police has called the relationship between the press and police “distorted”. Bernard Hogan-Howe told the Leveson Inquiry he had concerns over close social relationships between officers and journalists, and said the frequency of meetings described in evidence to the inquiry had been surprising. He said: “A drink, so what? For [...]

The phone hacking scandal would not have come to light without unofficial meetings between police officers and the press, the journalist responsible for breaking the story has said. Nick Davies, who writes for the Guardian, told the Leveson Inquiry the police should not be prevented from speaking to journalists without authorisation from press officers, and [...]

Former Daily Mirror and News of the World editor Piers Morgan admitted to the Leveson Inquiry that he listened to the tape of a celebrity couple’s voicemail. Morgan, giving evidence via videolink from Los Angeles, admitted after some questioning from Robert Jay QC, the Inquiry counsel, that he was played a tape of a voicemail [...]

Christopher Jefferies was one of the many victims of privacy intrusion by the press. Following his arrest in connection to Joanna Yeates’ murder, from which he was released without charge, Mr Jefferies saw his life exposed, facts twisted and a string of baseless accusations splashed all over the front pages of the tabloid press in [...]