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THE DOGS OF WAPPING
FOR MORE than two decades journalists at the News of the World have been breaking the law. They have been using private investigators to pay corrupt police officers for confidential information. Several times, the scandal threatened to explode but it wasn't until earlier this year that it finally erupted. REBECCA reveals that during the editorship of Piers Morgan in 1994 the paper bought access to a confidential police investigation into anonymous calls made by Princess Diana. The story — Rupert Bared — showed that this was a story that Rupert Murdoch, who took a close interest in the News of the World, became personally involved in. Now REBECCA can reveal the full story behind Scotland Yard's bid to smash the links between a corrupt private detective agency and tabloid journalists in 2000. Anti-corruption detectives wanted to make an example of one reporter. The bid failed when the Crown Prosecution Service decided that there was insufficient evidence to prosecute — but many tabloid journalists will have known that they'd had a close shave.  The story is told in The No I Corrupt Detective Agency. But, despite the warning, it was another ten years before the scandal finally broke. |
