News of the World hired investigators to spy on hacking victims' lawyers

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

The Guardian
Nick Davies

Exclusive: Investigators followed and filmed lawyers of hacking victims in apparent attempt to gather material on private lives
Mark Lewis, who has represented victims of phone hacking
including the family of the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler,
was one of the lawyers targeted.
The News of the World hired a specialist private investigator to run covert surveillance on two of the lawyers representing phone-hacking victims as part of an operation to put pressure on them to stop their work.

The investigator secretly videoed Mark Lewis and Charlotte Harris as well as family members and associates. Evidence suggests it was part of an attempt to gather evidence for false smears about their private lives.

The News of the World also took specialist advice in an attempt to injunct Lewis to prevent him representing the vic [...]



Submit your suggestion / comments / complaints / Takedown request on lookyp.com@gmail.com

 
 
 

Popular Posts