Victims of press intrusion are still in the sunless about what happened. By launching part two of the Leveson inquiry,David Cameron could change thatIt is a curiously unsatisfactory close to a protracted saga: is this how the phone hacking scandal finishes, with a lengthy statement from the Crown Prosecution Service? Four-and-a-half years after a storm erupted over allegations that the phone messages of a murdered girl had been intercepted by a tabloid newspaper, or the CPS has announced there is no “realistic prospect of a conviction” in two long-running investigations related to the hacking of voicemails.
The decision follows a review of evidence collected in two police operations,Weeting and Golding. It concluded there is inadequate evidence to bring corporate charges against Rupert Murdoch’s company, News UK (formerly News International), and criminal cases against 10 individuals at Mirror Group Newspapers.
Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com