Hacking inquiry – Hacked off

A Met police office who worked on the original phone hacking investigation told Leveson the “moment had been lost” to conduct a full search of Clive Goodman’s desk at News International. Chief Superintendent Keith Surtees said officers had been obstructed by members of staff who feared they could be threatened with violence. He said: “I [...]

There is no evidence from Surrey Police’s records that messages on murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s mobile voicemail were deleted or caused to be deleted by private investigator Glenn Mulcaire or News of the World reporters. “So the story published by the Guardian on July 4 is a lie”, cry tabloids and broadsheets in unison. Well, [...]

by Brian Cathcart One of the minor oddities in all the accumulated evidence about phone hacking is a remark made at the Old Bailey on 26 January 2007, when Glenn Mulcaire was sentenced to six months in jail. Almost casually, it seemed, Mr Justice Gross observed that the private investigator had had other collaborators at [...]