CPS receives new hacking files
Scotland Yard detectives investigating alleged phone hacking and wider misconduct by journalists have passed four files to the Crown Prosecution service.
Phone hacking detectives pass journalists' files to CPS
Scotland Yard detectives investigating alleged phone hacking and wider misconduct by journalists have passed four files to the Crown Prosecution service. The files were given to the CPS in the last few weeks.
It is a significant step in the investigation and means that the Director of Public Prosecution is being asked to begin to consider whether to charge those involved.
All the same a decision may not be made quickly and the DPP could ask for more evidence.
The files relate to the following cases:
- A journalist and a police officer concerning the Data Protection Act and misconduct in public office
- A journalist and 6 others concerning perverting the course of justice.
- A journalist concerning claims of witness intimidation.
- A journalist concerning the police investigation ‘operation Reaper’.
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