David Leigh
Documents revealing the full extent of the Metropolitan police cover-up over phone hacking have been unearthed after legal discovery battles by News of the World victims.
The files' contents were detailed on Monday to the Leveson inquiry in sworn written statements from the former deputy prime minister John Prescott and former Met deputy assistant commissioner Brian Paddick, who was himself a hacking victim.
Paddick used his insider knowledge to depict the existence of a widespread fear of the tabloids among senior police officers and what he called a general "culture of cover-up" at the Met.
But the detailed allegations he and Prescott make about the hacking affair are even more startling. According to the evidence, lies appear to have been told not only to individual victims, but to government ministers, parliament, the judges and the public.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/feb/27/police-cover-up-phone-hacking-leveson
Documents revealing the full extent of the Metropolitan police cover-up over phone hacking have been unearthed after legal discovery battles by News of the World victims.
The files' contents were detailed on Monday to the Leveson inquiry in sworn written statements from the former deputy prime minister John Prescott and former Met deputy assistant commissioner Brian Paddick, who was himself a hacking victim.
Paddick used his insider knowledge to depict the existence of a widespread fear of the tabloids among senior police officers and what he called a general "culture of cover-up" at the Met.
But the detailed allegations he and Prescott make about the hacking affair are even more startling. According to the evidence, lies appear to have been told not only to individual victims, but to government ministers, parliament, the judges and the public.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/feb/27/police-cover-up-phone-hacking-leveson
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