Evidence given by John Yates, the Metropolitan police assistant commissioner, to the home affairs select committee left a number of unanswered questions about his handling of the phone-hacking investigation.
His actions in July 2009
On 9 July 2009, the Guardian published a story that revived the hacking affair. Later that day, Yates announced that there were no grounds to reopen the original inquiry and said the News of the World's hacking had had few victims. There are several difficulties with this.
Yates' statement itself appears to be misleading. If he had not established the facts, he was in no position to judge whether or not the inquiry should be reopened, nor to make public any conclusion about the number of people who had been victims....read more
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