Very large number of victims of phone tapping by the News of the worl, based on results of recent investigations, a surprise member of the British parliament.
London's Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers, who led the investigation, said only 170 people from nearly 4,000 potential victims who have been contacted. He told members of the Home Affairs Select Committee that the British parliament, the police was checking the 3870 names, phone numbers along with 5,000 homes and 4,000 mobile phone numbers.
But on Tuesday (12/07/2011) night, as reported by The Daily Mail, Wednesday, speculation increased that the true number of those who are intercepted by the News of the World can reach tens of thousands. Tabloid News of the World's media tycoon Rupert Murdoch had been closed last Sunday the wiretapping scandal. Tabloids have been aged 168 last year with a circulation of 2.6 million copies making it the largest circulation print media in the world. Speculation about the numbers of victims it intercepts appear after Akers told lawmakers that he held a very broad approach to the investigation.
Askers said people who had left a message on the phone that was tapped to feel that their privacy has been 'violated', as well as the person who is the destination of the message.
Sources in London's Metropolitan Police are now convinced that the wiretap investigation led by Akers, codenamed Operation Weeting, can last more than two years and would cost the Scotland Yard to several million pounds.
Askers assured lawmakers that he would oversee the investigation. He said, "I hope that I do not have to come back here in five years."
The scale of the operation was revealed when Akers admitted 'confidence has been damaged' by previous failures. Under his leadership, the detectives are in the process of contacting thousands of people that their personal data stored by a private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.
When asked if the other media organizations could be dragged into the investigation, said officers Askers will go wherever the evidence took them.
In recent weeks, he said, police officers have been contacted by 500 people who believe they may have been a victim of phone tapping.
He said the lawyers News International, the corporation that houses the News of the World, the original 'hard' to negotiate, but after agreeing a 'protocol', the company is now working with the detectives. "I held a meeting at which the first two International News executive (Will Lewis and Simon Greenberg) is present to argue with us a very different interpretation of the term" full cooperation ", and after that meeting I can say that the relationship has been much better," he said.
More than 11,000 pages of material uncovered during the investigation is now being uploaded to a database that is easily accessible in an effort to expedite the investigation, said Akers.
About the number of victims who contacted, he said, 'There are a lot of work to do, I can see how that goes. "
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| Wayne Rooney |
One is called the target intercepts is Wayne Rooney, who had sex three some with two commercial sex workers reported the News of the World. Footballers it plans to launch a lawsuit related to claims that mobile phone may have been bugged. Rooney, who earn 220,000 pounds (or approximately USD 3 billion) per week, had been warned by police in April that the phone may have been bugged by a reporter who works for News International. Yesterday sticking out that Manchester United striker and his agent, Paul Stretford, has appointed a team of lawyers to investigate the claim.
Rooney struggled to save his marriage to Coleen, his childhood sweetheart, following the revelation that in the case stating that he had had sex with a prostitute Jennifer Thompson and Helen Wood at a hotel in Manchester while his wife was five months pregnant.
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