UK’s phone hacking scandal reaches US

A British lawyer, Mark Lewis, has joined two lawyers in the US to pursue claims that four of his clients, one of them a US citizen, had been hacked on US soil by Rupert Murdoch’s now defunct tabloid News of the World, reported Reuters.

Investigations into the long-running phone hacking scandal were conducted between 2005 and 2007 and the results showed that the ‘black arts’ were blamed on one ‘rogue’ reporter, Clive Goodman, for hacking the phones of celebrities and others to get story scoops.

However, in 2009, the Guardian newspaper published a series of phone hacking allegations but the Metropolitan police decided not to reopen the original investigation into the scandal.

The phone hacking scandal cost former Metropolitan police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson and Assistant Commissioner John Yates their career as they resigned in July 2011 over mishandling the case.

Refusing to identify the clients, Lewis has said that he is collecting more evidence in order to file a US lawsuit, maintaining that his clients were hacked on US soil from 2001 to 2006.

Furthermore, last month, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned Scotland Yard that it is “prepared to step in” if the British police fail to conduct a full-scale investigation into the phone hacking scandal. The Daily Mail said a US investigation may involve more severe financial penalties and longer jail sentences.

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