Phone hacking: 7/7 victims fear police passed numbers to News of the World

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Phone hacking: 7/7 victims fear police passed numbers to News of the World

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/23/phone-hacking-police-news-world

Survivors of London bombings call in lawyers to investigate allegations that officers may have passed on addresses

Mark Townsend and Jamie Doward

Survivors of the 2005 London bombings have asked lawyers to investigate allegations that Scotland Yard "sold" or passed on the confidential contact list of the 7 July victims to reporters working for News International.

Beverli Rhodes, chair of the Survivors' Coalition Foundation, said that a number of 7/7 victims suspected that personal contact details, including mobile phone and ex-directory landline numbers as well as home addresses, were passed by officers to News of the World journalists.

The former security consultant, who specialised in counter-terrorism, said she had been contacted by a number of survivors of the bombings who said they had been approached by News of the World reporters with bogus stories of how they obtained their details, which they believe may have originated with the police.