Met must inform each and every victim of phone hacking - Dee Doocey (Barking and Dagenham Borough Liberal Democrats)

Barking and Dagenham Borough Liberal Democrats <barkinganddagenham@libdems4london.org.uk>

Met must inform each and every victim of phone hacking - Dee Doocey

July 9, 2009 12:00 AM

Dee Doocey, the Liberal Democrat London Assembly Policing Spokesperson and member of the Metropolitan Police Authority, commenting on revelations of widespread phone hacking by News Group said:

"It is breathtaking that hundreds and possibly thousands of people had their phones illegally hacked by private investigators working for national newspapers.

"It is disturbing in the extreme if for any reason the Metropolitan Police made a decision not to inform everyone who has been a victim of such serious crimes, and we need to hear from the Met whether or not this is the case. We also need to know why there is so much secrecy surrounding the civil actions that have taken place since a reporter for the News of the World was jailed for committing this crime.

"Questions need to be answered by the Met as to who knew what and when, whether any further prosecutions are likely and what steps the police are taking to ensure that no one individual or organisation is above the law."