Is there a conspiracy anywhere within the hacking scandal?
“This is a matter which touches many aspects of our public life – politics, policing, and media ethics – and potential conspiracies between several of them.”
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The position of Rebekah Brooks, News International chief executive and favourite of Rupert Murdoch, has come under increasing scrutiny after the latest phone hacking revelations.
The first survey of its kind by the Victims’ Commissioner shows that the criminal justice system adds to the trauma of bereavement for victims’ families.
Rupert Murdoch is standing by Rebekah Brooks as calls grow for her to resign from News International because of the phone hacking scandal. Add your voice to the live blog.
“Several” bereaved family members of 7/7 bombing victims are told by police that they may have been targeted by phone hackers from the News of the World, as MPs prepare to debate the scandal.
David Cameron calls for a public and independent inquiry into “disgusting” phone-hacking allegations as Rupert Murdoch backs former NOTW editor Rebekah Brooks.
“This is a matter which touches many aspects of our public life – politics, policing, and media ethics – and potential conspiracies between several of them.”
The parents of murdered schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were contacted by detectives investigating allegations of phone hacking by the News of the World, it has emerged.
Exclusive: Channel 4 News learns that a Metropolitan Police detective was put under surveillance by News of the World journalists and his personal details targeted.
It has been called the Trial of the Century and cost millions of pounds. But the phone hacking trial also raises serious questions about our political system.
Sir John Major tells the Leveson inquiry that Rupert Murdoch instructed him before the 1997 election that his newspapers would not back him unless he changed his policies on Europe.
Not the hacking of Millie Dowler’s phone. Not even the allegation that someone may even have deleted several of her messages. No, today’s charges by the CPS against Rebekah and Charlie Brooks, the current head of security at News International, and others, are allegations of cover-up.
Writing for Channel 4 News, journalist Joan Smith reflects on her day giving evidence to the Leveson inquiry at the Royal Courts of Justice.