Phone hacking: Met Police failed to warn victims, says review

The Metropolitan Police failed to warn people that they had been the victims of possible phone hacking by the News of the World, a judicial review has said. Ex-deputy prime minister Lord Prescott, Labour MP Chris Bryant and ex-Scotland Yard deputy assistant commissioner Brian Paddick had all pushed for the review, along with Ben Jackson, the former assistant to actor Jude Law, and an applicant known only as ‘HJK’. The individuals, some of whom had already received damages from the News of the World’s publisher News International, accused the police of breaching their human rights by not notifying them of the potential crime. Following the ruling, the Met Commissioner said that the police…

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