DPP was warned hacking was rife at Murdoch paper

[dipsydoodle]

Source: The Independent

The former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Lord Macdonald was warned by his own employees as far back as 2006 that there were a "vast array" of News of the World phone-hacking victims. Lord Macdonald, who has since been hired by the newspaper's owner, Rupert Murdoch, was sent a memo nearly six months before the reporter Clive Goodman and the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire were convicted, revealing that the charges they were facing related to just a fraction of the potential victims.

However, the hacking investigation was never widened despite pressure on the police and Lord Macdonald, the head of the Crown Prosecution Service at the time, to do so.

In a letter released yesterday, the former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith revealed: "The Director and I were aware that the particular cases referred to were not isolated examples." Lord Goldsmith said protocol prevented him from speaking to the police, but this did not apply to the Crown Prosecution Service, which Lord Macdonald led at the time, and whose lawyers briefed him on other victims of hacking.

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The revelation is embarrassing for Lord Macdonald because when he examined emails held by News Corp as part of his new job assisting the company's internal investigation earlier this year, he took "three to five minutes" to decide that the material constituted evidence of criminality and needed to be passed to police.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/dpp-was-warned-hacking-was-rife-at-murdoch-paper-2325909.html

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For our US cousins please read last two paras of the above lonk to help understand how things work here when it comes to the manner in which our police need authorisation to bring charges.

[Kingofalldems]

1. Kick and Rec to the top

[JohnyCanuck]

2. K&R n/t

[Nihil]

3. Good job that there was no conflict of interest ...

> The former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Lord Macdonald was warned
> by his own employees as far back as 2006 that there were a "vast array" of
> News of the World phone-hacking victims. Lord Macdonald, who has since been
> hired by the newspaper's owner, Rupert Murdoch, was sent a memo ...
> However, the hacking investigation was never widened despite pressure on the
> police and Lord Macdonald, the head of the Crown Prosecution Service at the
> time, to do so.

Corrupt bastards.

[salin]

4. very informative article. thanks for the link.

[beac]

5. K&R. n/t

[Uncle Joe]

6. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, dipsydoodle.