http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/home-affairs-committee/news/110720-phone-hacking-report/Publication of Report The Committee “deplores” News International’s attempt to “deliberately thwart” the original investigation into phone hacking in 2005-06 but also states that the police set aside a huge amount of material that could have identified other perpetrators and victims.
The Committee agrees with John Yates’s own assessment that his 2009 review of this investigation was “very poor”, that he did not ask the right questions and that he was guilty of a “serious misjudgement”.
The Committee criticises Andy Hayman’s cavalier attitude towards his contacts with those in News International who were under investigation which, even if entirely above board, risked seriously undermining confidence in the impartiality of the police, and accuses him of deliberate prevarication in order to mislead the Committee. It urges the swift and thorough investigation of allegations that payments were made to police officers by the media, which will help to establish whether or not such payments may have influenced police inquiries into phone hacking.
The Committee welcomes DAC Sue Akers’s decision to contact all potential victims of phone hacking by the News of the World as part of the current investigation, but is alarmed that only 170 have as yet been informed. At this rate it would take years to inform all of the several thousands of people potentially affected. The Committee therefore recommends that extra resources are allocated to her investigation, by the Government directly if necessary.
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