Exclusive: News of the World 'ordered burglary'

[oldironside]

Detectives have evidence which suggests that a notorious private detective agency carried out a burglary while working for the News of the World.

In the latest twist to the phone-hacking scandal, a police intelligence report indicates that Southern Investigations, based in south London, targeted the home of a newsworthy individual in an attempt to dig up salacious information.

The Independent has established that the material – the first suggested link between the News of the World and burglary – is being held by Operation Tuleta, the police inquiry into illegal newsgathering techniques other than phone hacking and corruption. It refers to a "sortie" carried out into a woman's home in Ascot, Berkshire, and mentions the name of Alex Marunchak – a long-serving executive on the News of the World.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/exclusive-news-of-the-world-ordered-burglary-8145238.html

I think we're ready to buy some 3.99 Sekt from here by now. It can't be long before the Möet and Chandon...

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. This has been the most disturbing aspect of the whole affair, IMO

Leveson inquiry: NoW accused of colluding with murder suspects

Former Crimewatch presenter Jacqui Hames also claims Rebekah Brooks covered up why her family were targeted

Making one of the gravest Leveson allegations so far, former Crimewatch presenter Jacqui Hames, the then wife of Detective Chief Superintendent Dave Cook, broke down in tears as she accused the paper's then editor Rebekah Brooks of covering up the real reason why her family were targeted.

The intimidation was carried out after an offer of a £50,000 reward on Hames's Crimewatch programme for fresh information on the murder of Daniel Morgan, a partner in a private detective agency.
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She alleged that former NoW executive Alex Marunchak colluded with suspects who ran the NoW's private detective operations. They put the family under surveillance and targeted their phones for hacking. Brooks, as editor, failed to act when confronted with the evidence in 2003, Hames said, and Marunchak was even subsequently promoted.

After the broadcast, Cook got official intelligence that the suspects planned "to make life difficult for him", and the programme was sent an email suggesting Hames was having an affair with a senior detective. Two vans stationed outside their house were eventually traced back to the News of the World.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/feb/28/leveson-inquiry-murder-suspects

Not only did NotW pay Rees and Fillery at Southern Investigations for dubious work, they helped them by following police officers looking into Southern Investigations, on the laughable pretext that the NotW couldn't work out that they were married, not 'having an affair'.

[fedsron2us]

2. Somehow I think the jails are not going to big enough to hold all those involved