A high court judge said Murdoch-owned company in the wake of news of the world have “some sort of recognition” that engage in intentional cover-up of evidence relating to the telephone hacking, on the day that the Publisher is paid about seven figures in damages to settle claims by the 37-hacking the phone no public figures that range Jude Law to John Prescott.
Mr. Justice Vos, judge who presided over the case of hacking, told the newspaper the news group (NGN) he had seen the evidence raised “interesting questions about whether you have hidden, told lies, actively tried to get off scot free”.
The judge ordered the company to find a few computers that may contain evidence that executives who deliberately attempt to destroy evidence of phone hacking, saying that he had seen the emails showed “surprising approach to NGN email entry”.
He said he had seen the emails showing how, days after the actor Sienna Miller wrote to the company who asked him to retain emails that may be related to hacking phones, “the plan previously understood to hide evidence put in train with the NGN Manager”.
The judge read the part of the secret court documents detailing allegations of a cover-up by hacking victims against the company executives and directors. This includes the cost of the company “issued a statement that a fake public know”, which had been “deliberately deceived the police” and have destroyed the evidence of violations including “very large amounts of email” as well as computers.