News of the World paid me to follow 90 people, claims private detective

[alp227]

Source: The Guardian

A private detective has claimed the News of the World paid him to target more than 90 people, including Prince William, former attorney general Lord Goldsmith and the parents of Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe, for eight years until it was shut down in July.

Derek Webb, a former policeman who said he started working for the News of the World shortly after setting up his own private detective agency in 2003, has told the BBC's Newsnight he continued to carry out surveillance for the News International title until it was closed at the height of the phone-hacking scandal.

The investigator said he was paid by the paper to follow more than 90 targets including Prince William, Goldsmith, Radcliffe's parents and Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker.

"I was working for them extensively on many jobs throughout that time. I never knew when I was going to be required. They phone me up by the day or by the night… it could be anywhere in the country," Webb told Newsnight's Richard Watson, in a report to be broadcast on the BBC2 daily current affairs show on Tuesday night.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/nov/08/news-of-the-world-private-detective

[HopeHoops]

1. Wouldn't it be hard enough to follow just one? I mean, people go different directions.

:evilgrin: :hide:

[dipsydoodle]

2. The private detective got the hump

becuase unlike others at NOWT he didn't receive severence pay.

Surveillance isn't an offence - invasion of privacy is under EU law.