Three MPs Investigating Phone Hacking Hacked During Their Investigation

‘An Organised Attack on the Democratic Process’

Former Labour MP Paul Farrelly explains the circumstances surrounding a new legal investigation into whether members of Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), looking into phone-hacking and press criminality, were systematically hacked by Murdoch empire.

Ten years ago this month, Rupert Murdoch was readying himself for the imminent break-up of his life’s work, as reverberations from the phone-hacking scandal shook his global empire to the core. The upheaval would see the now 92-year-old Australian tycoon lose control, in time, of Hollywood’s 21st Century Fox and satellite broadcaster Sky to US rivals, as investors demanded his blighted British newspapers be put firmly at arm’s length and in their place. Meanwhile, back then, Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, former editors of the defunct News of the World, were huddled with lawyers, ahead of a criminal trial on conspiracy charges. And hundreds of thousands of people had just signed a petition demanding immediate implementation of press reforms advocated by the judicial inquiry into hacking, headed by Sir Brian Leveson, the previous autumn. Today, Coulson has long since served his 18 months in prison; Brooks, who was cleared, is back at the helm of Murdoch’s News UK, overseeing the Sun, The Times, and Sunday Times; and the Leveson agenda, plus the promised Part Two of his inquiry – into relationships between journalists and the police – has been buried by the backtracking Conservative Government.

The hacking saga, however, is far from over.

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/10/28/three-mps-investigating-phone-hacking-hacked-during-the-investigation-an-organised-attack-on-the-democratic-process/

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