A lawyer for victims of News of the World phone hacking told the court that long after NotW knew of the police investigation of its newsgathering process, it put reporters’ laptops and hard-drives “through a grinder” and took them out and “smashed them up.”
The destruction of the computers is understood to have taken place around October last year, prior to the launch of Operation Weeting, the London Metropolitan Police investigation into phone hacking which has led to the arrests of 16 journalists.
The shredding of hard drives would have happened long after senior executives were made aware that phone hacking had spread beyond a single “rogue” reporter.
Phone-tap tabloid’s computers destroyed, court told
(via The Inquirer)
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