2006 MET POLICE INQUIRY INTO NotW PHONE HACKING
The Police investigation under Andy Hayman* concluded that a small number of people had been targeted by a rogue NotW journalist.
// our inquiries showed that they only used the tactic against a far smaller number of individuals. //
- Utterly Wrong.
// It is important to recognise that our enquiries showed that in the vast majority of cases there was insufficient evidence to show that tapping had actually been achieved. //
- Utterly Wrong.
Where there was clear evidence that people had been the subject of tapping, they were all contacted by the police. //
- Utterly untrue.
2009 REVIEW OF THE POLICE INQUIRY BY AC JOHN YATES
// No additional evidence has come to light since this case has concluded. //
- Utterly Wrong.
// I therefore need to ensure that we have been diligent, reasonable and sensible, and taken all proper steps to ensure that where we have evidence that people have been the subject of any form of phone tapping, or that there is any suspicion that they might have been, that they have been informed. //
- utterly Wrong again.
http://cms.met.police...nt_from_ac_john_yates
TODAY
// New allegations have emerged of payments to the police as the row around the News of the World escalates.
The paper's owners have passed to the police e-mails which appear to show that payments were authorised by the then editor, Andy Coulson. //
* Since he retired from the Met Police in 2007, Andy Hayman has been employed by... Rupert Murdoch.
Can the original botched Police investigation be put down to incompetence? Or a more sinister Cover-up?