Hacking inquiry – Hacked off

Nobody wants to fight a national newspaper for two years to prove libel. But that is exactly what happened after Juliet Shaw, then a freelance PR consultant, was approached to appear in a Daily Mail article on women moving from city life to the country. Looking for a fresh start, Juliet had moved back to Walney [...]

When Chris Jefferies was woken up by police offices on the morning of December 30 2010, he had no idea he was about to be arrested in connection with the murder of his tenant, Joanna Yeates. Dog walkers discovered her body on Christmas Day. She had been strangled and her body dumped three miles from [...]

When an individual known only as ‘HJK’ gave anonymous evidence to the Leveson Inquiry last year, many people speculated over who it was. As it turned out it was not a cautious film star or politician but an ordinary member of the public, caught up in the hacking scandal after going out on a few [...]

A man who appeared in an iconic picture of the 7/7 bombings says he has accepted press intrusion into his life, six years after the event that pushed him into the public eye. Paul Dadge, a former fire fighter, was photographed running out of Edgware Road station with Davinia Douglass, who suffered severe facial injuries [...]

A journalist, novelist and campaigner was one of the phone-hacking victims who have settled with News Group Newspapers today. Joan Smith, whose phone was hacked and who was put under surveillance while she was MP Denis MacShane’s partner, received £27,500 in damages plus costs. Smith was present as her statement was read in court by [...]

Their story outraged the whole nation. Three months ago, it was revealed that Milly Dowler, who was murdered by nightclub bouncer Levi Bellfield* in 2002, had her mobile phone hacked after her disappearance. The Dowler family and their solicitor Mark Lewis teamed up with the Hacked Off campaign to meet the leaders of the three [...]