Guardian: News of the World journalists spied on behalf of murder suspects

[denem]

(and just when you thought it couldn't get slimier ) ...

Scotland Yard informed the editor, Rebekah Brooks in November 2002 and - no action was taken - by anyone. This is the same Rebekah Brooks, now chief of News International that Rupert backed to the hilt in a public statement yesterday.

editor of the News of the World Rebekah Brooks was confronted with evidence that her paper's resources had been used on behalf of two murder suspects to spy on the senior detective who was investigating their alleged crime.

Brooks was summoned to a meeting at Scotland Yard where she was told that one of her most senior journalists, Alex Marunchak, had apparently agreed to use photographers and vans leased to the paper to run surveillance on behalf of Jonathan Rees and Sid Fillery, two private investigators who were suspected of murdering their former partner, Daniel Morgan. The Yard saw this as a possible attempt to pervert the course of justice. ...

A Guardian investigation suggests that surveillance of Detective Chief Superintendent David Cook involved the News of the World physically following him and his young children, "blagging" his personal details from police databases, attempting to access his voicemail and that of his wife, and possibly sending a "Trojan horse" email in an attempt to steal information from his computer.

The targeting of Cook began following his appearance on BBC Crimewatch on 26 June 2002, when he appealed for information to solve the murder of Morgan, who had been found dead in south London 15 years earlier. Rees and Fillery were among the suspects. The following day, Cook was warned by the Yard that they had picked up intelligence that Fillery had been in touch with Marunchak and that Marunchak agreed to "sort Cook out".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/06/news-of-the-world-rebekah-brooks

So Alex Marunchak, senior journalist at News, agreed to "sort out". Detective Chief David Cook; and after the Yard consulted News, the matter was dropped? I can hear jail doors opening.

[fascisthunter]

1. I Hope This is the Beginning of the End to Fox as well

that news syndicate should be banned for nefarious political propaganda and for inciting violence against certain groups of people.