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Previously on The Hack.

So, Nick Davis and the Guardian are losing the exclusive, but winning the

Alan Rusbridger and the Guardian have been in touch with us at Panorama. It's

the hacking stuff, but there's also this story on Jonathan Rees that they've

been pushing. We phoned in voices on his desk.

Rees, the Alex Maranchuk, the news in the world. Well, Andy Coulson's the end

that. There was a name that appeared in the top corner of Glenn's notes.

Ian Edmondson. Ian Edmondson? You reported directly to Coulson?

Someone I wanted to meet.

David Cook, Golden Brown.

I'm interested to hear more about what's happened to you.

I, uh, I think I might be able to help.

I, uh, are you a fan of walking?

No.

Do you have a favorite spot?

Hell walking in Arden, sir.

You don't need to call me, sir.

Policeman's habit.

Well, I like Aaron.

Particularly in the... And this might point to a certain masochistic quality

my part.

Particularly in the wintertime.

Well, it's the colours.

Aaron in the winter.

Well, we shall have to go.

You can show me the route.

Oh, you're making me quite homesick.

No, surely you can get up there more often now you're not... Now that I don't

have a job?

No, I didn't mean... I should be able to, shouldn't I? And yet I keep being

dragged back to London.

Glenn has told me something about what happened to you. Your, uh, your story.

Okay.

The intrusion.

The surveillance. The, uh, the meeting with Rebecca Brooks.

It sounds a merry mess.

Yeah, well, look, I made mistakes, I should know.

Oh, well, we all do.

We all do.

My father was a minister, as I think you know, in the Church of Scotland. He

would hear everyone's story.

It's a great feeling on my part that I don't have the time nor the patience

he does, so I think it's my responsibility to tell you why your

unusual story mattered to me.

And it's because I think this country has become polluted and

I think that we could all, should all, try to do something about it, don't you?

You've read the pieces in The Guardian about the hacking?

Yeah, an excellent one.

Did you read the pieces in The New York Times too?

I did.

And you know the work that Glenn is doing at Panorama?

Yeah.

Rupert Murdoch.

is trying to take control of B -Sky B. If he does that, it's a valuable

organization, and he will leverage the value of it to accumulate the debt

to buy a huge multinational company, perhaps Disney or Time Warner.

He'll have control of our media landscape and a good hold of America.

He needs to be stopped.

I agree.

I will tell you my stories, and you will tell me yours.

And then perhaps, David,

Perhaps we can work out how to help each other.

What do you say?

What do you want me to say?

Into the shark cage.

I don't think they'll be providing us with cages tonight.

You're late. The helpful press awards were a good idea. A narcissist who

realized it's an industry full of narcissists who pay to be rewarded for

narcissism. I can't be here.

Look over there.

It means the world.

You know, they actually have members of staff under arrest and many more being

investigated. Ra's neck on them is ridiculous.

So the least I can attempt is some neck?

No. I just want you here.

You think we're going to win something?

You're mad. Everyone here hates us. I want you here because I want us to lose

with dignity.

Together.

I've missed you.

I feel itchy. I hate this shirt. It makes you look extremely handsome.

Oh, well.

Now, I have to go and play nice with some rich board members.

But please remember, these people...

They're more frightened of you than you are of them. There's a difference

between hate and fear.

your attention please before our awards start this evening we have a special

update from journalist nick davies on wednesday the 26th of january news

international passed scotland yard three email messages which they claimed to

have only just discovered in ian edmondson's computer and ian edmondson

sacked once in receipt of these emails scotland yard announced a new inquiry

Operation Wheating under the command of Sue Akers. I dismissed Wheating as a PR

move by the Met until on the 9th of February they released a statement.

The new evidence recently provided by News International is being considered

alongside material already in the Metropolitan Police Service's

Couldn't be.

They weren't finally going to investigate the last four years of their

incompetence. All actions and decisions by the previous investigation are being

reviewed. What were they? Were we winning, finally?

I certainly didn't feel like a winner.

And the award for showbiz reporter of the year goes to...

It's Stephen Moyes of the News of the World.

Congratulations, Stephen.

Okay, and the award for News Reporter of the Year goes to... It's the fake

Sheikh Mazam Amr for the News of the World.

The Scoop of the Year now. The Scoop of the Year is awarded to the News of the

World for its excellent coverage of the cricket corruption scandal.

And the award goes to... The News of the World!

Okay, the moment we've all been waiting for. It's the big one.

The Newspaper of the Year.

Now, the Newspaper of the Year goes to, for what the judges say is a paper

completely unafraid to take on the powers that be.

So, the Newspaper of the Year award goes to... The Guardian!

Jackie Ames? Yes.

My name is D .S. Slater.

This is D .C. Grossman.

Is it David?

David Cook?

No. Well, I suppose, in a way, yes. We are here investigating.

We're part of a new operation.

Operation Wheating?

We're investigating allegations of phone hacking.

Do you work for Johnny Eats?

No, we're part of the Special Crime Directorate.

Under the command of Deputy Assistant Commissioner Akers.

Great, thank you. You were found in the notebooks of Glenn Mulcair.

This doesn't surprise me.

We'd like you to take a look at these details.

Is this your police payroll and warrant numbers?

Yes.

How did he have these?

Is that...

That's where I lived in 1977.

Is this where you worked in 2002?

Yes. And this phone number, this is... This is correct, yeah.

There's information here that could only have come from my police personnel

file. Yeah, we, um... That's what we think.

Someone within the Met sold him my information.

David's information.

It's, um...

When was this known?

When did the Metropolitan Police have this information?

A notebook was taken from Montclair in 2006.

Yeah.

And the Metro is neither too informing nor investigate this possible

corruption.

That's what we're trying to do now, Mum.

Glenn Campbell.

Nick Davis. Hi.

Honour and a privilege.

I hear that you're not well liked at Panorama.

I hear you're adored at the Guardian.

So, who do you usually meet here?

Is this where you meet criminals or politicians?

I float between cafes and pubs like a butterfly at a festival.

Liked the panorama on Alex Marinchak. It wasn't one of mine.

You helped a lot. It was good.

You've got some particularly great hits in on Jonathan Rees. I really liked your

piece on him, too.

Mr. A.

Very good.

You writing more?

No.

I'm... Didn't Dave say, I'm out?

Coulson's gone, as far as I can go.

Don't look like that.

An engineer death, but something.

I wanted people to take it seriously. They didn't, so...

I'm handing everything on.

Trying to persuade Ireland to give me Belgium.

They gave you Newspaper of the Year.

That was for the Guardian, not me. I lost my category.

You're getting somewhere, Nick. I got somewhere.

Look, I know this must have cost you. Cost me isn't half of it.

No one... No one cared. The whole industry turned away like a complicit

What if I said I came to see you today with an agenda?

I'm friends with Claire Rue Castle -Brown, the journalist and sister -in

Gordon Brown. He's leaning in. I took Dave to see him, and he now wants to

you.

Gordon Brown?

Gordon's been looking at your work, and he thinks there's a way to use it to go

further.

Come on, Nick.

What's meeting him going to cost you?

Well, it's wonderful to have you all here. Thank you, Claire and Glenn, for

organizing it.

You know, I have such respect for the work of everyone in this room.

And I used to be prime minister. There, does that start us off?

Just about.

The Murdoch B -Sky B -Bid would be a disaster for our country. This hacking

investigation needs better scrutiny than people have chosen to give it. If

people understood, properly understood the hacking, what was happening with

hacking, it may mean they rethink the B -Sky B -Bid.

We have a shared objective.

How we achieve that objective is, well, I increasingly believe, as it is clear,

and Tom, we'd be best to achieve together.

And perhaps everyone would like some tea.

And perhaps everyone would like some tea.

That's it, that's it, I'll pour. No, I'll pour.

Right.

Who would like to begin?

Well, maybe I should speak first.

I was recently interrupted in an investigation room and shown details of

in Operation Wheating that were... Well, the level of intrusion was troubling.

It's just possible that Operation Wheating is the first met -up to be run

properly. Well, the secret is John Yates isn't running it.

Good. Good. So, how do we help them?

Where will they struggle?

Well, we have to get them to include Jonathan Rees.

It makes no sense to tackle Mulcair and not Rees.

I've got invoices to show that they were both up to exactly the same activity.

Prepare me a file and I'll send it to Sue Akers.

Is it that simple?

Well, I have access to Sue through the Select Committee. I can't promise

results, but it's the start, no?

Sue and I were DSs at the same time. I've already asked her to expand the

of the investigation, but... It'll mean more coming from a parliamentary

perspective.

Good.

What else?

You seem to all be constantly looking at me surprised.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the problem we have is that the police,

politicians, and press are all collaborating under Murdoch's aegis.

We are also made up of police, politicians, and press. A non -official

opposition, if you like.

So, let's talk.

What do we need to do?

You are...

Are you having a nice time?

What?

You know, you're a remarkable campaigner, Mick. Did you ever consider

politics?

Um... Well, I don't know. I don't know.

Why would you say that?

Perhaps a bit too suspicious of other people to be a politician.

Something I struggle with myself sometimes.

And I believe it because I've seen it on this case.

You're not sure whether I mean this, are you?

Sorry? You don't trust me?

I think this is the ball that I picked up that I will quickly drop.

You're saying you won't drop the ball?

You know, they, um... They came at me in every way, as you might expect.

They blagged my lawyer.

They procured my family's medical information, and they, um... This is

something. They impersonated me to get into my building society account.

That's a lot.

I tried to hold a judicial inquiry into phone hacking, and, uh, let's see now,

uh... Autumn 2009, after I read a piece of yours, that was my first article.

The civil service resisted it, I think is a kind term.

It did not meet the tests of public concern.

You know, everyone thinks I'm close to Rupert. He's very adept at that. He

quietly, you know all this. He rarely disagrees. He asks questions and he

makes everyone feel interesting.

It fascinates me.

How the powerful let him in.

I wasn't as good at that game as Tony.

When he came for me, and he did, I was unprepared.

Whether it was how I bowed my head at the cenotaph or how I wrote to the

grieving mothers of dead soldiers.

Yes, I remember.

You know, I rang Rupert to tell him that his papers were damaging morale in

Afghanistan. As Prime Minister, I was asking people to fight.

And he was telling them article after article that I was casual with their

lives, with soldiers' lives, that I didn't care, to undermine that, to make

those young people feel undervalued by their government.

It's just not right.

Sometimes you can tell that you're the son of a preacher.

You know he wants everything.

His ambition is limitless.

But he's overstepped here.

And badly.

We can, and we should, do something important to counter him.

But this started with you, and it's going to need to end with you.

All I wish is to say, we need you, Nick.

Dave? Dave?

Yes, sir.

How's life at soccer?

We're getting somewhere.

Did I hear you've been giving orders to GCHQ? That must be fun.

It's a bit more complicated than that.

What can I do for you, John?

Would you mind popping into mine for a minute?

Sure.

Internal investigations caught an email coming from your computer to Mike

Sullivan at the Sun.

Which email?

So why is this a problem?

I said you'd rather be told it by me. Well, and he was useful in morgue, and

he's still useful now. I mean, you've got a good relationship with him

haven't you? I also have one or two questions about the Panorama program

went out.

Yep. I believe you're friends with Glenn Campbell at Panorama. Have we?

Do you think you could ask him?

Have we got footage of Jonathan Rees with his computer?

Well, he's quite protective of his sources.

Rees is convinced, as am I, that the footage could only have come from inside

the Met.

He's threatening to take action again.

Did it?

Come from inside the mech? Is that a further press relation?

The request to pass information to Mike Sullivan came for you.

I mean, he's your mate.

But there are rules, Dave, and you know that. I do.

And there's Operation Waiting Treatment, Mr.

Lawrence.

Give Panorama, Mike Sullivan, Nick Davis, or anyone fucking else anything

our cases, and you'll be strung up for all to see.

Do you hear me?

Yeah, I hear you.

I've got permission to talk about it with you and you alone.

I am privileged.

It means private meetings, you and I, outside of editorial.

Of course.

When have we not had those?

Welcome back.

Alan, our Scottish friend, you know it better than I do.

We can trust him, right?

I want to say two things.

One, you're a journalist.

And... I'm scared that getting into bed with certain politicians, well, we'll

lose our vital independence.

You do it all the time. I share my bed with all political parties, and I hope

I'm pretty fair at sharing the covers.

Nick, we've just removed a senior member of Conservative staff, and I don't want

that dismissed as coming from the newspaper arm of the Labour group.

Understood, but I asked about Gordon. And that's the second thing.

You don't go into a room with Gordon Brown and get what you want. You go into

room and get what he wants.

He's ferociously intelligent and very used to power.

But if your interests align, as I think they do here,

he can be a remarkable ally.

One last push, is it?

And then I want Brussels.

Then you want your well -paid chocolate dream.

Of course. Good.

But please, Nick, take it slow.

To work. What have you got?

The flood of cases is overwhelming the courts, so they've appointed a hacking

judge. He's already causing trouble. At the Andy Gray trial, he said it's clear

Mulcair had been regularly hacking him. So that's an invitation. Any man, woman,

or creature who has anything in those books has been given license to sue.

And you'll write it up?

Yeah.

Why do you think they gave us this?

Good journalism.

None of them support the story, our story.

Guilt.

World's most powerful motive.

Oh, I love you, darling.

Yeah, love you too.

Don't know, don't know, don't know.

Okay. It's Mike and Chief.

She's, uh, she's not been sleeping very well.

I've been making her leave her phone downstairs most nights, so I'm not sure

you'd get away with that.

I've done my best.

Also, um... I've, uh, been contacted by Operation Weeting.

Oh, have you?

You knew then?

The things they had on me.

Oh, no, I'm sorry. I should have warned you. Yeah.

Yates came after me today.

And?

Didn't land a punch.

Good.

They're keeping me at arm's length.

But they did tell me a few pieces of useful information. You remember that

Surrey Police got a call fishing for my details?

Mm -hm. Well, Wheating told me that, um, it was probably Mulcair.

They made that call.

Jesus Christ.

I don't think anyone's understood the depth of criminality here.

Destabilising police investigations.

I mean, we're talking about a murder charge being... Yeah, look who I'm

right?

Please don't laugh at me about this. I'm not.

I'm not.

You know, right at the beginning of this, I went to see Rebecca Brooks.

And I said, um, what you're doing is outrageous.

And you know what she said?

She said, we believed that you and Jackie were having an affair.

And as you're both public figures, public interest was on our side.

They thought we were having an affair and we were already married.

Ridiculous.

I'm thug.

Cruel, I think, is a better word.

I have a source in the police who's been quite openly victimized. It might stop

the whining celebrity angle.

What whining celebrity angle?

People dismissing it because they think it's just celebrities whining. Get him

on the record.

He's been badly damaged by all this already.

You're Nick Davis?

Only on weekdays.

Have we met? How can I help? By telling me what the fuck you think you're doing,

stealing my story.

Can we use your office?

Which story have I stolen?

Apparently you're Mr. Hacking.

Every hacking story carries your byline.

It doesn't.

Today, in the paper, published. You didn't write one word of it.

No.

Well, aren't you going to apologize?

No.

You know...

The Guardian gives out all this shit about what kind of world I don't want,

yet... This is well written. Fuck off.

I didn't ask for credit on it. Whoever said I did was wrong.

Right then, who do we see next?

Alan? Old.

Anything? Writing a story about the hacking scandal without consulting

who spent the last three years having his life destroyed by it.

Is this what worked for you?

When you're attacked, you just attack back?

No, sometimes.

Maybe you could have something there.

This is about Operation Wheating.

It's a totally different thing.

How come I haven't seen you round the offices before?

I work alone.

My own hours.

They're supportive of it.

What have you got on Wheating?

Contact of mine in the force has been put on it.

He's feeding me.

Tell me everything.

No.

He says it's timid.

He's eager for more action.

What's he giving you?

each arrest as it happens.

Neville Thirlbeck is going to be at Kingston Police Station between 9 and

I'm there conveniently for the arrest.

Can you, might you, tell your source, tell them to look into the initial

committee hearings, and in particular the letter they received from News

International lawyers, because there's disclosures in that the police never got

the answer to.

Thanks. Yeah, I will.

Would it be so bad as working together?

You need to see this.

Here's Ben Grazia in walking with more on this story.

First the denial that celebrity voicemail messages were listened to.

claim it was down to a single rogue reporter and his private investigator

sidekick. Now the admission, we failed to uncover what was going on. We're

to apologize and we're going to pay up.

Fuck.

Absolutely right.

Exactly the news of the world admitting to it.

It's brilliant.

Is it?

Well, by admitting they were at fault and agreeing to cooperate. In fact, what

they're doing is they're finding a new device for concealing the truth. Nick,

will it be cheaper?

Standard rate damages rather than the million pound hush money they've had to

pay up. And getting it out in court now is next to impossible.

Am I right?

Well, if you are, for instance, Fiona Miller, and you do take it to trial,

if she ends up getting...

less at trial than they offered her before, then she risks being ordered to

both sides' costs, which could be astronomical.

And so, then, yes, it makes getting to trial almost impossible.

Shit. My advice is, they've twisted one way, we must twist another.

I've had a reply from Sue Akers on Reef.

She's shown you that?

She says her remit is limited to more care and the notebook. She isn't going

near Reef.

Should we try to leak something? Put pressure on that way?

I've got Rees specifically targeting Kate Middleton. I've just heard he

John Yates.

Or we could... Do you think if we twisted an arm or two, do you think we

get me up the list for PMQs?

That's a very good idea.

I'm not following.

What does Sue Akers want?

To be free to take the evidence wherever it leads her with a swift prod from the

left?

Maybe the Prime Minister will extend her brief.

You could even name Rees.

Good, good. Hang on.

All of this exposes Dave to scrutiny again.

No, I'm ready.

Tom, can I help?

Please do.

Good, good.

Let's box Cameron in.

As the Prime Minister has previously said, the hacking inquiry should go

the evidence takes it. The Metropolitan Police are in possession of paperwork

which details the dealings of criminal private investigator Jonathan Rees.

It strongly suggests that on behalf of News International, he was illegally

targeting members of the royal family, senior politicians and high -level

terrorist informers.

Yet the head of Operation Wheating has recently written to me to explain that

this evidence may be outside the inquiry's terms of reference.

Prime Minister, I believe powerful forces are involved in a cover -up.

Please, please tell me what you intend to do to make sure that this doesn't

happen.

The point I'd make to the Honourable Gentleman, I know he takes a close

in this, is there is a police inquiry.

A police inquiry doesn't need terms of reference.

The police are free to investigate the evidence and take that wherever it leads

them, and then mount a prosecution with the CPS.

Amelia. Hi.

Saw you go in. Sorry, a bit weird to wait for people outside toilets.

Hold on a second.

Got a minute?

Sure.

Two inquiries are being set up.

Operation Tolita, looking specifically into Jonathan Rees. Good.

Operation Eldon. Never get over Scotland Yard. Need for a strange name.

To investigate the alleged payment of bribes to police officers and other

officials from journalists from the News of the World. What's made them do this?

You didn't see Tom Watson's speech?

Oh, I may have, Tom.

Did you write it?

Also,

the select committee wading you suggested to my officer.

Let's call him...

Jingle. Fine.

It proved fruitful.

Operation Waiting forced some emails out of News International, and the Met

discovered on their service some systematic deletions.

Of course.

In particular, one enormous deletion in January.

While they were handing over those three emails from Ian Edmonton, can we print?

I'm working on it.

Look, Jingle was grateful for the advice.

He said he can't volunteer information on active cases, but ask him a question,

he'll tell no lies.

We've had something interesting come up. What is Judge Voss doing?

I feel like we've only seen a tiny percent of Mulcair's notes.

Voss has been with Voss with everyone.

It's yielding fruit. Fiona Miller has been... Sky advocated. It feels

Where are we? Nick, I've got something, if you're interested, but you'll need to

listen. Sorry, go on.

I've been representing, as you know, Leslie Ash and Lee Chapman. Yeah, I read

about it. You're doing brilliantly.

You're like my ex.

You always get complimentary when you know you're in the wrong.

Sorry. I am sorry.

I heard you were a mess.

Oh, I can see an island of sanity. I'm floating close to it. Go on.

I went to Putney so that the waiting officers could show me the notes my care

had taken from Leslie Ash and Lee Chapman's voicemail. Yeah.

Now, some genius combined the two names and gave me

the details of Leslie Chapman.

Remind me?

Jessica Chapman's father.

Jessica Chapman was one of the murdered schoolgirls, right? The Soren murders.

It looks like Leslie Chapman's voicemail was hacked.

They hacked the voicemail of a grieving father. I'm not sure, but it looks that

way. You can't use it.

Yet.

This could change everything.

I need to talk to the family.

I need permissions.

I need to be sure.

Chapman found out I could talk to them. That's not why I'm telling you this.

Nick, think.

If they're doing this to the Chapman... Where else have they been?

Exactly.

Jessica Chapman.

Oh, the soul murders tore the place apart for a while.

She's sure they were into the parents' phone.

It's in Malker's notebooks, but I can't get in there.

I've got to find another way in.

There you are.

I envy your confidence.

No, I'm just... Just happy to have you back.

I thought that was better.

Sometimes.

Come on then, guys.

Are you just frying that cheese?

It's halloumi cheese, you'll like it.

I'm not hungry anymore.

What? No, it's just I don't get it. I mean, I eat when I know that I have to

eat.

I just don't get hungry anymore.

Don't. What? What a sympathy look.

I'm not being sympathetic.

Don't try and pretend you're any better state than me.

I've seen you, mate. You are this close to total collapse, I'm telling you. You

know the story of the dung beetle?

Oh. God, have I slipped that low.

What? That's what you throw out.

You throw out that story quite a lot, you know.

Ask your kid. Cry pity your kid.

What was going on? Have you heard about the dung beetle?

An aggressive response.

Come on.

That'll make you hungry.

Thank you.

You want to know how I do it now? Hmm.

I focus on the details.

Always the next detail.

I've been phobic of blood ever since a body exploded on me.

Body exploded on you? Yeah, well, an older man full of hernias.

Normally, when a pathologist's scalpel enters a cadaver, you hear a hiss.

Well, this time, it exploded.

Blood was everywhere. I was covered in it.

But I was in homicide, so I'd gone to pathology as a key part of my job,

So I focused on the details.

Ears.

Oars.

Even how the wound looked.

The blood I made disappear.

So how do you do it, Nick?

Tell me I'm mad.

With pleasure. I was in the database, News of the World, April 14th, 2002, 250

words long, page 9. It claims that voicemail messages were sent to Millie's

phone after she disappeared.

Millie Dowler.

Police say voicemails were left by a mentally disturbed woman who has hoaxed

previous inquiries. Even quotes what she said.

Uh, hello, we're ringing because we have some interviews starting. Can you call

me back? Thank you, bye -bye.

This is six days after Millie had disappeared.

Finally, didn't the paper?

That reference was remote.

Because they might have realized what a boobie they'd made.

Charlotte has evidence that they hacked Jessica Chapman's father on the Soane

case. We can't get close to that. That was the family, but she was the girl

herself.

Rebecca was editor then.

This was under her aegis.

Can you confirm this?

I think so.

Is this as big as I think it is?

Yes, it is.

Make sure it stands up.

Yeah, hi. Any fruit?

Jingle says they've been investigating.

Is that confirmation?

Are they confirming that it happened? Yes, there is a page on Dowler in

Mulcair's notebooks.

Right, we need to be absolutely watertight.

Nick, he also says they're pursuing a line of inquiry. They've deleted

because the voicemail box was full.

They deleted messages.

I'll get a firm anonymous quote from Jingle.

Okay. Thank you. Bye. Bye -bye.

I have a source from inside Wheating. I've got the article. Glenn, I've got a

good source saying that Surrey Police know about it and the Dowler family did

not.

Well, this is it.

This is it.

I don't want to believe, but I do.

The source is clear.

Stuart Kutner... Remember him. ...even called Surrey Police. He didn't just

the voicemail, he followed up on it.

They even think they deleted her answer phone messages to allow space for

messages to be given, which made the family think she was still alive.

Oh, God.

Do you know, if we can land this, this changes everything.

How?

A child.

A dead child's phone. It's despicable. You know, part of the British public

think that celebrities, politicians, journalists even deserve everything that

they get, but when an innocent is harmed.

An innocent already wronged.

Trust me.

The news of the world will not be forgiven for this.

Hi,

this is Dave.

Leave a message.

David, I've been offered to go on to Channel 4.

I don't have a career to protect and I think I should do it.

If you have a problem with any of this, could you just call me or text me,

please? Thank you.

Mrs. Dowler, my name is Nick Davis. I know.

They said you'd be coming by.

I've just been watching you on YouTube.

Come on, come in.

Thank you.

Thank you.

So the police are keeping you... Up to date with it all, yes.

Operation Wheating, good team, it seems.

They say it was true.

Our daughter was hacked.

Yes.

You tell us why.

Why, sorry?

What we don't understand is why someone would do this.

You're a journalist.

Can you explain?

I think there's a good story in it.

A good story?

They wanted to either find her or to find something printable about her.

So the phone promised all those things.

But we'd only just lost her, didn't they know it was wrong?

I think they didn't consider that.

And they know it would hurt us.

At that time, Millie was the most famous person in the UK.

And everyone wanted to read about her.

And I'm afraid they needed to sell their newspaper.

And now you're here.

Someone else selling a newspaper?

I am.

Yes, but I'm hoping... What we are doing...

will help expose a wrong that was done to your daughter.

However, yes, we are selling newspapers.

And I know that all this will be bringing her back into the spotlight

And I know... And that's painful.

Just slightly.

Yeah.

But you should do it all the same.

You have our permission, Nick.

If you needed it, that is.

Thank you.

Always can never get used to microphones being poked everywhere.

I'm used to it from Crimewatch.

Of course.

Of course you are.

More used to it than me.

Oh.

Do you want to share the byline with Amelia?

Her source helped confirm it.

Need something clearer.

Is the world targeted?

Illegally targeted.

Good. Illegally targeted.

Missing schoolgirl Millie Dallow and her family in dates interfering with the

police investigation into... No.

Interfering with police inquiries into her disappearance and deleted messages.

Then what the family believed.

She's alive.

The lie of that.

Do we have a thought and a secondary thought?

Yes, we do.

Have we spoken to Scotland Yard? Of course. They've asked for a quote.

This is... quite something.

Channel 4 News can tonight reveal that allegations have been aired that a

Metropolitan Police detective was put under surveillance... by the News of the

World journalists, and his personal details were targeted.

The former Crimewatch presenter and detective, Jackie Haynes, has spoken out

the first time.

So, Jackie, you were approached by Operation Wheating.

What did they show you?

They showed me various sheets of paper, which I was told came from Glenn

Mulcair's diaries and notes, and...

sat there and read the extent to which he had delved into my private life.

And it was quite a body blow.

I want to know who instigated the surveillance and the research that was

us.

I would like to know how they got and who they got that personal information

from about us.

I would like to know what the purpose of it was from them.

Do you think there was an attempt here to...

interfere with your ex -husband's criminal investigation and if so what

evidence for that it's very difficult when you look at the um the order in

things happen the chronology of it not to at least want to shine a light on it

and say you know how is it that the day after that appeal went out on crime

watch that this started to happen

And it's very difficult not to come to that conclusion that they were somehow

complicit in all of this, or someone within the organisation was.

Complicit in what exactly?

In trying to discredit David or myself.

Of course they didn't print it.

And so, it finally begins.

More revelations. The pressure on the news of the world grows with another day

of dramatic development. Shocking stories.

It is alleged that Glenn Mulcair hacked into the mobile phone of the murdered

schoolgirl Millie Dowler. Well, this poor girl's dead and they're trying to

stories. There is a new allegation that the tabloid may have hacked into the

phones of the relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq.

If these actions are proved to have been verified, I'm appalled.

I find it quite disgusting.

Tonight, Chief Executive Rebecca Brooks says we're told that she's shocked and

that she knew nothing about it. Today is the anniversary of 7 -7.

Relatives of victims of the London bombings may also have had their phones

hacked into.

Somebody was listening to that. It's a violation, isn't it? An extraordinary

moment in British journalism.

The news of the world is to close.

What happened happened very, very quickly. It's like a bomb hit the place.

Those decent people up there are being thrown out of a job today. The sense

everyone gets is that Rupert Murdoch is getting rid of the news of the world in

order to protect taking over BSkyB. I'm interested in those who were responsible

for being brought to justice. Scotland Yard confirmed today that it had

documents suggesting a number of its officers were given inappropriate

by News International.

Being briefed for information is a criminal offence. It's corrupt.

It's bribery.

David Cameron's former head of communications is arrested over

phone hacking.

The decision to hire him was mine, and I take full responsibility for it.

There's an awful lot I'd like to say, but I can't. The pressure is mounting on

Rebecca Brooks.

Both her and James Murdoch should be leaving their deaths.

The Prime Minister has announced details of the independent public inquiry led

by Lord Justice Levitin. We'll have the power to summon and question newspaper

proprietors, journalists, police and politicians.

It is with great regret.

Did I make this decision?

The mighty Murdoch empire has suffered its most humiliating blow yet, as it

suddenly dropped its bid to take control of B -Sky B.

Murdoch has abandoned his bid for B -Sky B, but will he face wider consequences

in relation to the phone hacking scandal?

What will come next?

And I heard as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying,

Come and see.

And I saw, and behold, a white horse.