Phone hacking: emails show Cameron aide 'stopped' briefing (Told police not to 'compromise' the PM)

[Turborama]

Source: The Guardian

John Yates names Downing Street chief of staff aide as man official told Met 'not to compromise' PM by raising phone hacking

Hélène Mulholland and Matthew Taylor | Tuesday July 19 2011 17.41 BST

David Cameron's chief of staff, Ed Llewellyn, stopped Scotland Yard briefing the prime minister on the phone-hacking scandal in September 2010, a senior police officer told a panel of MPs today.

John Yates, the Met assistant commissioner who was in charge of the controversial review of evidence into phone hacking in 2009 and who quit on Monday, told MPs that Cameron's chief of staff told him it was not appropriate for him to brief the prime minister on the hacking investigation, adding: "And I'd be grateful if it wasn't raised".

The revelation came in a day of high drama as two select committees held separate evidence sessions on the phone hacking scandal that has engulfed the media, the police and Westminster over the past two weeks.

The claim was made after it emerged last week that Llewellyn also failed to pass Guardian warnings about former News of the World editor Andy Coulson over hacking and his connections to Jonathan Rees, a private detective then facing charges for conspiracy to murder, to Cameron.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jul/19/phone-hacking-emails-cameron-aide

[Hubert Flottz]

1. This is why I think the guilty will NEVER pay!

Too big to jail!

[Amonester]

2. Can't wait to see how cameron and his mobsters will be trashed in...

the polls.

(Well, I HOPE they will! Otherwise, I will lose all HOPE for the U.K. people...)