“Journalists from across News International repeatedly targeted the former prime minister Gordon Brown, attempting to access his voicemail and obtaining information from his bank account, his legal file as well as his family’s medical records.
There is also evidence that a private investigator used a serving police officer to trawl the police national computer for information about him.”
Yet perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this story is this:
“Details from his infant son’s medical records were obtained by the Sun, who published a story about the child’s serious illness.”
Update: News International are now believed to have asked for the takeover of BSkyB to be passed to the competition commission – which Labour have been arguing consistently for. It’s unclear how that will impact on today’s debate on the issue in the commons.
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