Sentences with phrase «illegal phone hacking»

David Cameron and Nick Clegg are wrangling over the membership and status of the inquiries that will be held into illegal phone hacking at the News of the World and wider questions about the future of media regulation.

I have learned that News International uncovered four emails indicating that the former News of the World news editor Ian Edmondson had full knowledge of the illegal phone hacking activities of the private detective, Glenn Mulcaire.

The trial of Tommy Sheridan cast new light on the News of the World's use of private detectives who have been convicted of illegal phone hacking and «blagging» confidential data.

He denied any knowledge of illegal phone hacking and resigned because he said a spokesman could no longer continue when he needed a spokesman himself.

Until recently the best - known of these — because he was caught and convicted — was Glenn Mulcaire, whose speciality was illegal phone hacking, including the phone of Mr Hunt's predecessor, Tessa Jowell.

«For the past 19 months, I have fought to hold the Metropolitan police to account for its unwillingness to investigate illegal phone hacking by Rupert Murdoch's News of the World,» he told the Hull Daily Mail newspaper.

Not only has the story not been contained, not enough people «compensated» for illegal phone hacks and Andy Coulson been forced to resign as Cameron's spin doctor, the indelicate conspiracy of silence that has seen most other newspapers clam up on the story, has failed to contain it either.

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There was the craven response from Nick Clegg that although phone hacking was already illegal it was still justified to bring in further restrictions because Lord Leveson said so.

[6][7] Illegal means of gaining information used included hacking the private voicemail accounts on mobile phones, hacking into computers, making false statements to officials, entrapment, blackmail, burglaries, theft of mobile phones and making payments to public officials.

The Guardian journalist Nick Davies described commissions from the News of the World as the «golden source» of income for Rees» «empire of corruption», which involved a network of contacts with corrupt police officers and a pattern of illegal behaviour extending far beyond phone hacking.

These charges were made about one year after the Metropolitan Police Service reopened its dormant investigation into phone hacking, [259] about three years after the then Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service told the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee that «no additional evidence has come to light,» [56] five years after News International executives began claiming that phone hacking was the work of a single «rogue reporter,» [260] ten years after The Guardian began reporting that the Met had evidence of widespread illegal acquisition of confidential information, [261] and 13 years after the Met began accumulating «boxloads» of that evidence but kept it unexamined in bin bags at Scotland Yard.

Weeting has been told to focus on one private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire; on one illegal technique, phone - hacking; which he deployed for the one newspaper which paid him on a full - time contract, the News of the World.

The News of the World phone - hacking scandal is set to reach a new peak of embarrassment for the paper and for Scotland Yard with the naming of the sixth and most senior journalist yet to be implicated in illegal news - gathering.

Indeed, there remain many voices in the party that want to boycott the paper as punishment for its coverage of the Hillsborough tragedy as well as the illegal phone - hacking scandal; and the party's strategy is clearly driven by these considerations.

Paul McMullan, former News of the World deputy features editor, told the Guardian newspaper this morning that David Cameron's communications chief «would certainly be well aware that the practice was pretty widespread,» and the paper reported that Paul McMullan «claims that phone - hacking and other illegal reporting techniques were rife at the tabloid while... Andy Coulson was deputy editor and then editor of the paper.»

Claims of illegal phone tapping by the News of the World have led to calls for the Conservative leader, David Cameron, to sack his communications director, Andy Coulson, who was the editor of the News of the World at the time of the alleged hacking.

The Guardian purports to be «bemused» at the idea and is indifferent to the disclosure of Jeff Id's personal information, presumably on grounds similar to those proffered by David Leigh in relation to his phone hacking (where the Guardian apparently condoned illegal conduct if it believed the cause to be virtuous or if they disapproved of the target.)