The Home Secretary has revealed she was concerned about a link between the Metropolitan Police and News of the World. Theresa May MP told the inquiry she wrote to Scotland Yard on July 14, 2011 – after the Milly Dowler revelations – about a contract between the Met Police and Neil Wallis’ PR firm Chamy… Read more »
Former Home Secretary Lord Reid has today denied claims he was briefed on phone hacking in 2006. The inquiry heard in March this year he was “aware of the investigation” around the time private investigator Glenn Mulcaire and News of the World reporter Clive Goodman were charged with hacking. Reid said the evidence, given by… Read more »
Jeremy Paxman has told the Leveson Inquiry the then editor of the Daily Mirror Piers Morgan told him how mobile phones could be hacked. The Newsnight presenter said today the conversation took place during a lunch with “a dozen or so” people at the Trinity Mirror Group offices in 2002. Ulrika Jonsson, businessman Philip Green… Read more »
Former Home Secretary Alan Johnson has accused the Metropolitan Police of being “lethargic” in responding to phone hacking allegations. The MP said he was “naively reassured” by former assistant commissioner John Yates that the original phone hacking investigation had been properly reviewed by police in 2009. Johnson, giving evidence to the the Leveson Inquiry today,… Read more »
Tessa Jowell has denied failing to help police with phone hacking prosecutions. The former Culture Secretary said police informed her voicemail messages had been illegally intercepted in 2006, when she was on holiday with family and friends, and her “offers of further help were declined”. Previously the inquiry heard Jowell had resisted helping officers with… Read more »
The Metropolitan Police has said today it was impossible to conclude how messages from Milly Dowler’s voicemail were deleted, creating “false hope” for her family. A statement from DCI John MacDonald, a senior officer investigating the potential deletions, was read out before the inquiry today. He said it was possible an illegal intercept had resulted… Read more »
