Hacking’s Stunning Victim List: Scotland Yard has a list of 3,870 people whose phones were tapped.

[caduceus111]

Source: The Daily Beast

The remarkable scale of the British phone-hacking scandal has been underlined by a new allegation that its victims may include one of the country’s most notorious murderers. Robert Thompson, now 29, was one of the schoolboy killers of 2-year-old James Bulger in 1993, a case that appalled the country. According to the Sunday Times newspaper, police have recently informed Thompson that News of the World acquired his telephone details—even though, to protect him from revenge attacks, he had been given a secret new identity by the authorities after serving his sentence.

Thompson joins a list of suspected and confirmed hacking victims that includes, notably, the future king, Prince William; half a dozen former cabinet ministers (including a former deputy prime minister); the mayor of London; senior police officers; and leading personalities in sports, cinema, television, business, and the news media. Most sensationally, as The Guardian revealed in July, the list also includes Milly Dowler, a schoolgirl who was missing at the time of the hacking and was found to have been murdered. There are also unconfirmed press reports that families of soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq have been told they were victims, along with bereaved families of those who died in the July 2007 bomb attacks in London.

The total number of people whose voicemails were accessed by News of the World will almost certainly never be known with any accuracy, although the police officer in charge of the inquiry, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers, has revealed that the hacking paperwork held by her team contains the phone details of 3,870 people. Only 170 of those had been contacted by police as recently as July, and so great is the task of tracing and informing them that a significant part of the police team has been working on nothing else for months, and is expected to continue in that way for many months more.




Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/31/news-of-the-world-scandal-murderer-robert-thompson-s-phone-may-have-been-hacked.html

[leftynyc]

1. Each and every one

of them should bring suit against News Corp (or whatever the European equivalent is). Bankrupt the fucker. I think they're going to find some hacking that went on in the US also - more lawsuits. Just bury them.

[dipsydoodle]

3. Be aware

where texts and voicemails were involved the offense was against the sender : not the recipient. Broadly speaking its the senders who'd need charges brought on their behalf. That is a function of our theft act which may differ from yours over there.

On the subject of the US - the solitary claim came from The Mirror who have since been unable to substantiate it.

[leftynyc]

6. I'm confused

If you have a sec, could you explain the law and exactly what happened there. Thanks a bunch.

[dipsydoodle]

9. This came up shortly after the beginning

and the subject was discussed in depth on our tv news here. I already knew that sometimes actual proof of theft isn't necessarily easy - its compounded by the specific issue of "intention to permanently deprive the owner".

What this subject this revolves around, from memory, is that the actual owner of the text or voice mail is the sender : not the receiver. I can't really see all of these cases coming to court. I think the situation to date is that all cases have been settled out of court and have been civil case anyway in which case aspects of the law won't have been material yet.

Isn't life complicated.

:hi:

[leftynyc]

10. Thanks so much

Intent is everything in criminal law. That's not what is going to take down the Murdock empire. It'll be civil suits and and disgust. He'll die a rich man but nobody will miss him - for somebody who has been part of the movers and shakers in the US, Europe and Australia, the fact nobody wants to be associated with him will be a big blow.

[dipsydoodle]

2. It has been mentioned before

that it will take years and years for the police to work through the entire list so I hope nobody is holding the breath.

[orpupilofnature57]

4. Rupert is just another Example of NWO ,all in the name of greed.

The pie in the face will be the only punishment.

[dipsydoodle]

5. He thrives on power

and that's what he will lose.

[malaise]

7. He will lose both power

and money and I'm lovin' it. I hope his criminal son ends up in prison before the scumbag croaks.

[Fumesucker]

8. Stunning? Hardly...

I'm not even mildly surprised..

The M$M is corrupt to the very core, we're still seeing nothing but the uttermost tip of the iceberg.