Phone Hacking: Lord Prescott Wins Bid to Challenge Met's Handling of Case (Murdoch News Internat'l)

Source: Guardian

Phone hacking: Lord Prescott wins bid to challenge Met's handling of case
Prescott, Chris Bryant, Brian Paddick and journalist Brendan Montague asked high court judge for judicial review

Amelia Hill
guardian.co.uk, Mon 23 May 2011 11.09 BST

Lord Prescott, the former deputy prime minister, on Monday won his latest bid to mount a legal challenge over the Metropolitan police's handling of the News of the World phone-hacking case.

He and three others – Labour MP Chris Bryant, former Scotland Yard deputy assistant commissioner Brian Paddick and journalist Brendan Montague – had asked a high court judge to give them the go-ahead for a judicial review.

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Yet it had now emerged that not one of the claimants had been given an accurate or complete account of the material which police held. The effect of this had been to protect News International from expense and embarrassment: "We share the disquiet of the public about the police's motivation for playing down the scale of unlawful behaviour and the way in which News International has, as a result, been shielded."

Read more: http://m.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/may/23/phone-hacking-lord-prescott?cat=media&type=article

The initial handling by the police was so inept and incomplete, and the News of the World has admitted paying policemen in the past, that it looks highly likely some policemen covered up the hacking for News International.

For instance:

just not in the US.

hacking our PCs and tapping our phones.