Sentences with phrase «police on the phone hacking»

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The younger son of the media tycoon stepped down as the chairman of the - then BSkyB in 2012, forced out by his links to a scandal at the family's now - defunct News of the World newspaper which, among many other ethical outrages, hacked a murdered schoolgirl's phone in a search for its next story on the case, temporarily misleading the police and the girl's family into thinking she was still alive.

Rupert Murdoch's media empire on Thursday shut down the 168 - year - old muckraking tabloid, which has been engulfed by allegations its journalists paid police for information and hacked into the phone messages of celebrities, young murder victims and even the grieving families of dead soldiers.

On Thursday, police arrested Neil Wallis, former deputy editor and then executive editor of News of the World, in the investigation of phone hacking.

The Metropolitan police has blamed its focus on counter-terrorism after a judicial review condemned its original phone - hacking investigation as unlawful.

Duncan Campbell, Mark Field, Chris Bryant, Yvette Cooper: As John Yates and former senior police officers give evidence to MPs on phone hacking, four writers give their verdict

Rebekah Brooks, who is now on bail after being arrested on charges of phone hacking and corruption, was lent the horse by the Met police in 2008.

The prime minister David Cameron announced on 6 July 2011 that a public inquiry, known as the Leveson Inquiry, would look into phone hacking and police bribery by the News of the World, consider the wider culture and ethics of the British newspaper industry and that the Press Complaints Commission would be replaced «entirely».

James Murdoch stated that News International had based its «push back» against new allegations on the combination of three pieces of evidence: that the Metropolitan Police had closed their investigation, that the Crown Prosecution Service had closed their prosecution and that they had received written advice from their legal advisors Harbottle & Lewis, that there was nothing to suggest phone hacking was not the work of one «rogue reporter» working with private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.

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A man who lost two children in the bombings told the BBC that police officers investigating phone hacking had warned him that their contact details were found on a target list, while a former firefighter who helped rescue injured passengers also said he had been contacted by police who were looking into the hacking allegations.

He was arrested by appointment at a London police station by detectives working on Operation Weeting, the police investigation into phone hacking.

Boris Johnson has been accused of «political interference» in the police's phone - hacking investigation after saying officers should «move on».

Wallis was arrested last week on suspicion of phone hacking, and the furore surrounding his hiring by the Metropolitan police between October 2008 and September 2009 has led to the resignation of Sir Paul Stephenson, the Metropolitan police commissioner, and the Met's assistant commissioner John Yates, who both gave evidence on Tuesday.

DC said there were a series of failures on phone hacking by press, politicians and police and took a cataclysmic event (Milly Dowler) before the whole thing got «opened up in the way it should've done».

Mr Yates told MPs on two separate Commons committees last week that police only found ten to 12 victims of phone - hacking because prosecutors had instructed them that that hacked messages needed to have been heard before their intended recipient.

Former Labour minister Chris Bryant raised a point of order demanding the Speaker write to police himself, on the basis that MPs» security had been affected by hacks into their mobile phones.

Mr Coulson, Downing Street's director of communications, said he was willing to talk to police just as Scotland Yard re-opened the case on phone hacking at the News of the World.

It is almost unbelievable, but true, that the Met were sitting on evidence from 2006 onwards that indicated that the phones of up to 3,000 well - known figures had been hacked into, but neverthelessthis was ignored and the police went along with the NI line that phone hacking was confined to one single rogue reporter (whose legal bills are still being paid by NI to ensure he doesn't blurt out what he must know to the contrary).

The evidence disclosed to the claimants is being considered by the police in relation to the ongoing investigation, and by the Leveson inquiry which will focus on the detail of phone hacking in Part 2 which will follow the police investigation.

This is underlined by the increasingly willingness of select committees to move beyond their traditional «police patrol» mode of executive oversight, sounding «fire alarms» on issues including child sexual exploitation, phone - hacking and tax evasion.

The Leveson inquiry has been touching closely on issues relating to phone - hacking which it was supposed to have deferred until the Metropolitan police's criminal investigation was concluded.

Pressure is building on the Metropolitan police to expand their phone - hacking inquiry to include a notorious private investigator who was accused in the House of Commons on Wednesday of targeting politicians, members of the royal family and high - level terrorist informers on behalf of Rupert Murdoch's News International.

On 6 December 2013, Morgan was interviewed, under caution, by police officers from Operation Weeting investigating phone hacking allegations at Mirror Group Newspapers during his tenure as editor.

Nassau police have found no evidence that County Executive Edward Mangano exchanged sexually suggestive text messages with marketing executive Karin Murphy Caro nor that either of their phones was hacked, investigators announced on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016.

Fleet Street journalists, including those who worked for the News of the World, were summoned to attend seminars on the illegality of phone hacking by the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) and police in 2003 - the same year Mr Coulson became editor at the NoW.

John Prescott's mobile phone was reported to have been one of those hacked into, Jon Snow spoke to him on the phone from Cumbria and asked him if the police or anyone else had told him his phone had been tapped?

The Commons Home Affairs Select Committee chair Keith Vaz said: «The evidence of Assistant Commissioner John Yates today raised a number questions of importance about the law on phone - hacking, the way the police deal with such breaches of the law and the manner in which victims are informed of those breaches,» he said.

A 63 - year - old was arrested at an address in Surrey as former News of the World editor Andy Coulson was released on police bail after being quizzed for nine hours over allegations of corruption and the phone - hacking scandal that forced the closure of the 168 - year - old newspaper.

In his statement on Sunday, Mr Yates said: «Since further allegations in relation to phone - hacking first emerged in the Guardian in July 2009, the Metropolitan Police has been very clear about its position and made this public on a number of occasions.

Decision keeps pressure on Andy Coulson If the police start looking into allegations of widespread, endemic phone hacking at the News of the World, something they didn't do in 2006, the pressure for Andy Coulson to stand aside during a revived full - scale investigation could be hard to resist, writes political editor Gary Gibbon.

On 18 July 2011, it was announced that Elizabeth Filkin would lead an inquiry related to the News International phone hacking scandal which would «recommend changes to links between the police and the media, including how to extend transparency.»