(Rupert Murdoch's) Phone hacking: How the Met 'misled courts, parliament and public' [View All]

Source: Guardian UK

In a series of attacks, the Metropolitan police were accused of misleading the high court, parliament and the public over the phone-hacking scandal; and of keeping hundreds, possibly thousands of victims in the dark in a way which shielded Rupert Murdoch's News International from embarrassment and expensive legal settlements.

The evidence emerged at a hearing in which Lord Prescott, the former Europe minister Chris Bryant and the Met's former deputy assistant commissioner Brian Paddick sought permission for a judicial review of police handling of the affair.

Three others including the former media, culture and sport secretary, Tessa Jowell, asked the court to be recognised as interested parties.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/may/12/phone-hacking-met-high-court

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I'm picturing Rupert Murdoch's empire as a Jenga game....and today a Jenga piece from the very bottom of the pile just got pulled out. Wobble...wobble...wobble....