The scandal blew open again on Wednesday after the News of the World announced that Ian Edmondson, the paper's assistant editor (news), had been «suspended from active duties» before Christmas following a «serious allegation» that he was
involved in phone hacking.
They claimed that Goodman was the only journalist
involved in phone hacking.
The chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee said that if there had been «a thorough investigation of the facts»
those involved in phone hacking could have been dealt with earlier.
The chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee said if there had been «a thorough investigation of the facts»
those involved in phone hacking could have been dealt with earlier.
He resigned in January 2011, saying allegations that he was
involved in phone hacking when editor of the News of the World made it impossible for him to continue.
After the 2006 conviction of Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire, and with assurances from News International, the Press Complaints Commission and the Metropolitan Police Service that no one else had been
involved in phone hacking, the public perception was that the matter was closed.
The Committee Chairman John Whittingdale also questioned whether the Committee had been misled by several of the News International executives who had testified before it in 2007 that Goodman alone was
involved in phone hacking.
Not exact matches
And Max Mosley, the former head of Formula One who successfully brought a series of suits against News of the World for publishing pictures of him
involved in an orgy, later funded a number of lawsuits against the same tabloid by people who said its journalists had
hacked their
phones.
NOT after he was caught
hacking phone system for service, selling drugs to staff and students (which was ignored by campus authorities) and
involved in helping a teenager stay on campus away from her family.
The Tory leader was embarrassed by a clash between his evidence and Mr Coulson's about when the reassurances that Mr Coulson was not
involved in phone -
hacking were given.
14:46 - Next question from Whittingdale - who was
involved in phone -
hacking at the News of the World?
We get an incredibly high profile not just on
phone hacking, we've done the BBC as well, I've got the chairman of the trust and the director general coming
in and that's going to be a huge hearing as well... Because we have this power of summons, if there is a scandal, the great thing about a committee is that they can say «right I want every person who is
involved in this
in public,
in front of this committee, answering why this has happened and what we're going to do about it».
In the case of Edmondson's ex-colleague Clive Goodman, the paper's former royal editor, some of those scoops
involved paying the private detective Glenn Mulcaire to
hack into
phone messages left on mobile
phones belonging to public figures.
He says it was obvious to him, from his own involvement
in the
phone hacking case - Hughes was one of the victims
in the original Clive Goodman case - that more people were
involved.
After the August riots, Ed Miliband rightly made a connection between the «me - first» culture evident
in the riots and that which was displayed
in the scandals
involving MPs» expenses and
phone hacking.
It occurs to me, reading what is googleable about Eloise's work for a few minutes that she (i) assisted with the investigation into a death
in police custody while seconded to the IPCC (ii) was seconded to a solicitors» firm to assist with the
phone hacking disclosure (iii) did pro bono work (iv) was
involved with a judicial review of a costs order that was requested by a Local Authority
in a Non Payment Council Tax case at the local magistrates, which got into the law reports.