News International finds 'lost' emails that could provide evidence in phone-hacking case

[babsbunny]

Rupert Murdoch

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/news-international-finds-lost-emails-that-could-provide-evidence-in-phonehacking-case-2198996.html

By Cahal Milmo, Chief Reporter, and Martin Hickman

Monday, 31 January 201

A "lost" hoard of emails sent by senior executives in Rupert Murdoch's newspaper empire at the height of the phone-hacking scandal has been found, The Independent has learnt.

Detectives from the Metropolitan Police are now expected to examine the database of emails in their renewed search for News of the World journalists who may have hacked into mobile phone messages or hired private detectives to do so in breach of privacy laws.

A senior editor at News International, the UK newspaper arm of Mr Murdoch's News Corporation media empire, claimed in a high-profile criminal trial last year that "lots of emails" from editors and other staff had gone missing in a botched data transfer to India.

[DavidDvorkin]

1. I assume that the "lots of emails" included just the ones that the police needed.

[RC]

2. Now if they could find the 'lost' Emails from the Bush Administration.

[loudsue]

3. I don't see why this is such a problem. What have I missed about this case?

:shrug: