[ISN] Phone hacking: the next turn of the screw

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/phone-hacking-the-next-turn-of-the-screw-2195607.html

By Cahal Milmo and Oliver Wright
independent.co.uk
27 January 2011

Rupert Murdoch's News International yesterday conceded that the 
phone-hacking scandal went to the heart of Britain's top-selling 
newspaper, announcing that it had sacked a senior editor at the News of 
the World and passed to police what investigators described as 
"significant new information". The fresh evidence is thought to include 
emails which could implicate other executives.

Scotland Yard immediately announced a new investigation into the 
damaging allegations, which have seen NOTW journalists accused of 
systematically accessing the voicemails of public figures and sparked 
criticism of police for their failure to question key staff at the 
newspaper, including the former editor Andy Coulson, during four years 
of supposed inquiries. Mr Coulson resigned as David Cameron's spokesman 
on Friday because of the clamour surrounding the hacking claims. In a 
move that will be seen as the start of a new attempt by News 
International to draw a line under the affair, the company said it had 
dismissed Ian Edmondson, the paper's assistant editor (news) and part of 
Mr Coulson's inner circle, who was suspended in December after he was 
linked to the activities of Glenn Mulcaire, the private detective jailed 
for hacking the phones of Prince William's aides.

Sources said a trawl of Mr Edmondson's emails dating back nearly six 
years had found a dossier of "highly damaging evidence" which has been 
passed to the Yard. The Independent understands that detectives will 
scrutinise the information from thousands of messages found on the 
machine for any indication that Mr Edmondson or other figures at the 
newspaper were responsible for instructing Mr Mulcaire to target the 
phones of celebrities and politicians prior to 2006. 

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