The Independent reports:
The police chief who headed Scotland Yard’s inquiry into phone-hacking dined with the News of the World at the height of his criminal investigation into the newspaper.
The sensitively timed meeting between then Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman and the NOTW was left off lists of contacts between senior officers and the paper’s owner sent to the Metropolitan Police Authority. Its disclosure in a Freedom of Information request prompted claims that the force had an unduly “cosy relationship” with Rupert Murdoch’s print empire News International (NI)…
Liberal Democrat MPA member Dee Doocey said: “It is extraordinary that when serious allegations about illegal phone-hacking relating to the News of the World were still unresolved, the Commissioner and senior officers thought it was acceptable to devote so much time networking with senior executives of News International. I have real concerns about the appropriateness of such a cosy relationship.”
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Café with a view #20: Bedfords Park Nature Discovery Centre
Stanley Unwin is now remembered by a blue plaque at his old home in Long Buckby
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One Comment
This has got to the stage where the Met Police will have to prove they have nothing to hide. They’ve been pretty good at incriminating themselves so far.