From The Guardian on Tuesday:
The mother of a victim of the 2005 London terrorist attacks is suing Rupert Murdoch's media empire after she was told by police that her son's mobile phone is likely to have been targeted by a private investigator working for the News of the World.
Sheila Henry filed a high court writ this week against the paper's owner, News Group Newspapers, alleging that journalists at the tabloid, which closed in July, hacked into a mobile belonging to Christian Small, 28, on the day he was killed by a bomb blast on the London Underground.
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Mr Justice Vos, the judge overseeing the phone hacking cases, said : "There's some important material in what has already been disclosed. I took the step of looking at some of the material. There's some significant material. I'm sure there's lots more to come."
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More recently, from AP today, via The Boston Globe:
New London police chief calls in phone hack help
September 15, 2011
LONDON—The London police's incoming boss has called on an outside police force for help handling Britain's politically sensitive phone hacking probe.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe, whose predecessor resigned amid criticism he did little to investigate the issue, said Thursday that he was asking Durham Constabulary, a northeast England police force, to examine his own officers' work.
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Nobody expects the Durham Constabulary! ;)
In other Murdochgate news you may have missed...
1. James Murdoch, Les Hinton and others have been called back before Parliament for further questioning. It will probably happen in November.
MP John Whittingdale, head of the select Parliamentary committee tasked with the investigation said this:
“We spent some time questioning Tom Crone and Colin Myler last week about their version of what happened, and therefore I think it’s likely that we would obviously want to put that and to hear more from James Murdoch about how he recalls the meeting.”
more from the Washington Post:
He (Whittingdale) said that the panel was nearing the end of its deliberations but wanted to tie up “loose ends” by recalling a handful of witnesses, including Les Hinton, the former publisher of the Wall Street Journal; Mark Lewis, a lawyer representing many of the phone-hacking victims; and Farrers & Co., a law firm that advised News International.
Whittingdale said panel members want to question Hinton, the head of News International during the time of the alleged phone hacking, about payments made to Clive Goodman, the tabloid’s royal reporter, and Glenn Mulcaire, the tabloid’s private investigator. Both were jailed in 2007.
A spokeswoman for the committee said that Murdoch probably would be the committee’s final witness — though no date has been set — and that the members hope to report on their findings before year’s end.Henry’s case was reported to be one of first “test cases” that will be heard in front of a High Court judge — others include the actor Jude Law, Parliament member Chris Bryant, and interior designer Kelly Hoppen — that will pave the way for how other phone-hacking lawsuits against News of the World would be handled.
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2. Hugh Grant, J.K. Rowling and others have been named "core participants" in the inquiry.
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Sienna Miller has also come forward with her story of getting hacked by Rupert. She spoke to The Today Show today, the video of which can be viewed here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...