This story has rumbled on since 2007 when the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire and royal editor Clive Goodman were convicted and jailed. However, it now seems clear that knowledge of illegal phone hacking was not limited to just “one rogue reporter” as the News of the World originally insisted.
Thanks to the NoW’s own inquiry this week into its now sacked assistant editor Ian Edmondson and subsequent disclosure of some of his work emails we know that the paper’s own email system contained information sufficient to cause the Metropolitan police to start a new inquiry.
According to BBC business editor Robert Peston, News International, which owns the paper, uncovered four emails showing that Mr Edmondson had full knowledge of illegal phone hacking. It was these details that were passed to police. The point is that these emails have always been there; News International just didn’t have the means to discover them quickly and cheaply.
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