Tabloid's victims of hacking put at 800
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December 11, 2011, Sunday
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THE total number of people whose phones were hacked by journalists at the News of the World tabloid is around 800, British police said yesterday.
Scotland Yard said investigators have spoken with 2,037 people, of whom "in the region of 803 are victims" whose names appeared in notes seized from a private investigator working for Rupert Murdoch's now-shuttered News of the World.
"We are confident that we have personally contacted all the people who have been hacked or who are likely to have been hacked," Scotland Yard said.
Police had identified 5,795 potential phone-hacking victims in material collected from Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator at the center of the scandal who was jailed in 2007.
Scotland Yard said yesterday that while there are still "a raft of people" it needs to speak to who were identified as potential targets, those individuals are unlikely to have been hacked.
What had for several years been a trickle of allegations by people who claimed to have been hacked by the News of the World - from celebrities like Sienna Miller and Jude Law to politicians, including former deputy prime minister John Prescott - exploded this summer with the revelation that the paper had hacked into the phone of a 13-year-old murder victim, Milly Dowler, in hopes of getting material for news stories.
Scotland Yard said investigators have spoken with 2,037 people, of whom "in the region of 803 are victims" whose names appeared in notes seized from a private investigator working for Rupert Murdoch's now-shuttered News of the World.
"We are confident that we have personally contacted all the people who have been hacked or who are likely to have been hacked," Scotland Yard said.
Police had identified 5,795 potential phone-hacking victims in material collected from Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator at the center of the scandal who was jailed in 2007.
Scotland Yard said yesterday that while there are still "a raft of people" it needs to speak to who were identified as potential targets, those individuals are unlikely to have been hacked.
What had for several years been a trickle of allegations by people who claimed to have been hacked by the News of the World - from celebrities like Sienna Miller and Jude Law to politicians, including former deputy prime minister John Prescott - exploded this summer with the revelation that the paper had hacked into the phone of a 13-year-old murder victim, Milly Dowler, in hopes of getting material for news stories.
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