HACKERS VS HACK
AFTER the trial of Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson in 2014, police planned to resume their investigation into phone hacking and other illegal activities at the
News of the World
’s publisher, and requested an interview under caution with Rupert Murdoch which would have treated him as a criminal suspect.
But such was the “fusillade of aggression” unleashed upon the Met by Murdoch’s legal team that the plan was abandoned, and officers were persuaded to interview the journalist who broke the story in an effort to discover his sources instead.