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NOTW smashed journalists' computers

Hacking inquiry took PCs to the grinder
Mon Nov 21 2011, 09:14

MANAGEMENT at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid reacted to news about a phone hacking inquiry at the organisation by sending its journalists' computers through a shredder.

In court it has been revealed that during a move between offices, at a time when the disgraced News of the World was being sued and investigated in the Metropolitan Police "Operation Weeting", computer equipment was "taken out and smashed up", despite senior executives being aware of widespread phone hacking at the newspaper.

According to the Irish Independent newspaper, Jeremy Reed, the barrister representing a number of phone-hacking victims, told the court during a pre-trial hearing that this meant that there was only one original NOTW PC in existence, and that was already in the hands of the police.

During the hearing, Mr Justice Vos, the judge presiding over the civil claims trial, dismissed an attempt by parent firm News International to limit the amount of damages that could be awarded against the company. µ

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abhorrent behaviour

not only is the press controlled by via the the limited information they are given, but they are also unlawful in the way they acquire information and unlawful in the type of information they acquire

the press is not independant in the uk and breaks the law in the line of its operations

do yourself a favour and boycott the press - you may even get control of your opinions back!

posted by : papin, 22 November 2011 Complain about this comment
Wasn't it Rupert Murdoch who said...

"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear."

Apparently, NOTW had a lot to hide, and a lot to fear.

posted by : Morely the IT Guy, 21 November 2011 Complain about this comment
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