by Nick Davies
Polly Peck (textile company)
‘Poulton, Joe’, see Haslam, Derek
Powell, Jonathan
Premier (German TV company)
Prescott, David
Prescott, John (Lord)
Prescott, Pauline
Press Complaints Commission (PCC); ‘censures’ Sun for phone-tapping (2002); report (2007) accepts NoW claims; ‘misled’ by Murdoch company; evidence given to select committee; report on Guardian Gordon Taylor story (2009); criticised in select committee report; withdraws 2009 report; and Leveson Inquiry; appoints Trevor Kavanagh as member of group overseeing transition to new regulator; see also Buscombe, Lady
Press Gazette
Price, Adam
Price, Katie
Price, Lance
Priory clinic
Private Eye magazine
private investigators (PIs); see also specific PIs
Profumo, John
‘Project Bumblebee’
Pryce, Vicky
Quick, Detective Superintendent Bob
Quinn, Kimberly
Raymond, Kath
Reagan, Ronald
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Reed, Jeremy
Rees, Jonathan; and Daniel Morgan’s death; connection with DS Fillery and other bent officers; works for Marunchak; jailed; rehired by NoW; crimes for NoW made public; investigated by author; and police investigation; Guardian accused of hiring; Murdochs deny knowledge of
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (2000) (RIPA)
Reid, John
Rice, Dennis
Richards, Ed
Richmond upon Thames
Rinaldi, Dick
RIPA see Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act
Ritchie, General Andrew
‘rocs’ (‘record of calls’)
Ross, John (‘Rossy’)
Rothermere, Claudia Harmsworth, Viscountess
Rothermere, Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount
Rowland, Tiny
Royal Bank of Scotland
Rudd, Kevin
Rusbridger, Alan; worries about Gordon Taylor story; and threatened smear by Sunday Times; pressured to acknowledge inaccuracy of story; gives evidence to select committee; threatened by Rebekah Brooks; and PCC report on Gordon Taylor story; ignores police denials; summoned to see senior minister; sends Nick Clegg detailed summary of story so far; writes leader on Murdoch papers’ refusal to report findings of select committee; approaches editors and TV executives; and Nicole Kidman; reveals that Cameron was warned about Coulson; checks security of own phone; and Yates’s demand that allegation that he misled Parliament be withdrawn; and Milly Dowler; amazed at closure of NoW; commissions security specialist; clashes with Caseby; and Sunday Times stories; questions Fedorcio
Salmond, Alex
Salter, Martin
‘Sand’ (phone-hacking reporter)
‘Sapphire’ (reporter)
‘Sarah’s Law’
Saunders, Mr Justice John
Scargill, Arthur
Scarlett, Sir John
Schillings (law firm)
Scott, James
Seldon, Anthony, and Lodge, Guy: Brown at
select committees see House of Commons
Serious Crime Directorate
Shamash, Gerald
Shaw, Tracy
Shear, Graham
Shearer, Alan
Sherborne, David
Sheridan, Tommy
Shine (TV company)
Shipman, Chris
Shipman, Dr Harold
Shoesmith, Sharon
Short, Clare
‘Silver Shadow’ see Webb, Derek
Silverleaf, Michael, QC
Simons, Raoul (‘Ryan’/’Ryall’)
Simpsons, The
Sky News
Sky TV
Smith, Adam
Smith, Philip Campbell
Snow, Jon
Society of Editors
Soham murders; see Chapman, Jessica; Wells, Holly
Soho House club, London
Southern Investigations
Spice Girls
Star TV network
Starmer, Keir (DPP)
Starr, Freddie
Stenson, Jules
Stephens, Jonathan
Stephenson, Sir Paul
Stevens, Sir John
Stiglitz, Joseph
Strathclyde police
Straw, Jack
Strong, Arthur
Sugar, Alan (Lord)
Sullivan, Brendan
Sun; under Kelvin MacKenzie; use of phone hacking; offers reward for information about Milly Dowler; and Coulson; and Mohan; and Neil Wallis; and Tony Blair; and Gordon Brown; under Rebekah Brooks; ‘monstering’ of victims; sponsors police bravery awards ceremony; and PCC report; Rupert Murdoch’s interest in; reporting biased against BBC; attacks Ofcom members; Mohan as news editor; reports Cameron’s support for prison ships; hires Blunkett as columnist; targets Tom Watson; and select committee report (2010); and NoW closure; smears author; denies hacking into Gordon Brown’s medical records; fined for contempt of court over Jefferies case; vilifies Cameron; declares war on Guardian; offers reward for information about Milly Dowler; reviewed by Murdoch’s MSC
Sun on Sunday
Sunday Mirror
Sunday People
Sunday Telegraph
Sunday Times; its long history of illegal activities; infiltrated by Rebekah Brooks; campaigns against BBC; and targeting of Gordon Brown; smear threat against Rusbridger; discloses that Sir Ian Blair has been hacking victim; lunch gatecrashed by Brooks; further smears against Guardian; reports Sir Paul Stephenson’s connections with Wallis and Charlie Brooks; attacks Guardian over Dowler story
Surtees, DCI Keith
Sutcliffe, Carl
Sutcliffe, Peter (‘Yorkshire Ripper’)
Tarrant, Chris
Tatler
Taylor, Gordon: targeted by Miskiw and Mulcaire; and Edmondson; and Thurlbeck; speaks to lawyer; transcripts of his voicemail messages emailed to Thurlbeck (2005); told by police his voicemail has been hacked; sues NoW; offered ‘big money’ to settle; Guardian story on (2009); and evidence given to select committee (2009); PCC report on Guardian story; details of NoW settlement ordered to be disclosed; James Murdoch denies all knowledge of
Taylor Hampton (law firm)
Telegraph (Australia)
Telegraph Media Group
Thatcher, Margaret
Thatcher, Mark
38 Degrees (online campaigning organisation)
Thomas, Mark
Thompson, Mark
Thomson, Mark; questions police about hacking records; prepares his case; introduced to Lewis and Harris by author; has ‘dynamite case’ (Kelly Hoppen); takes on Heather Mills, and Sienna Miller; names Edmondson in letter to News International; suspects he’s being spied on; gets preservation order for News International emails
Thomson, Robert
Thomson Reuters
Thurlbeck, Neville; and Milly Dowler; sent transcript of messages from Taylor’s voicemail; and Mulcaire; reports on Kylie Minogue’s medical care; ‘Transcript for Neville’ (2005); fails to cover story of Taylor/Armstrong affair; and Goodman’s story about Prince Harry; email not passed on by police in 2006; author hands redacted email to select committee (2009); accuses Edmondson of involvement in phone-hacking; arrested; accused by Coulson of hacking Blunkett’s phone; jailed
Time Warner
Times, The; uses blagging specialist; Andy Hayman becomes regular columnist; and Guardian story; critical of Ofcom executives’ high salaries; Hayman’s column; reports on Guardian’s evidence to select committee; and PCC report (2009); on select committee members; suspends Raoul Simons; editor meets Cameron; reporter hired as media adviser by Miliband; smears BBC; and possible hacking of Mark Thomson’s phone; denounces NoW for hacking Dowler phone; and News International’s tactics
T-mobile
Today (newspaper)
Tomlinson, Hugh, QC
Toulmin, Tim
tracing
Twentieth Century Fox
Twickenham
UK Independence Party
Vaizey, Ed
Valassis (company)
Van Natta, Don
Vanity Fair (magazine)
VAT inspectors
Vaz, Keith
Venables, Jon
Virgin Media
Vodafone
Vogue magazine
Vos, Mr Justice (Geoffrey)
Wade, Rebekah see Brooks, Rebekah
Wall Street Journal
Wallis, Amy
Wallis, Neil; arrested but not charged; relations with police; and Mulcaire; hired by Scotland Yard as media consultant; arrested
Washington Post
Watson, Alan
Watson, Margaret
Watson, Tom: hounded by Murdoch papers over ‘curry-house plot’; and Rebekah Brooks; targeted by Sun; on media select committee (2009); and committee report; forms alliance with Charlotte Harris; calls for inquiry into relationship between police and NoW; makes powerful speech in House of Commons hacking debate; and BSkyB bid; urges DPP to reply to author; protests about Coulson; and hacking of Brown’s phone; sends summary of Rees’s crimes to Akers; brings up need for new inquiry in PMQs; given conditional offer of help from News Corp executive; on 2011 select committee
Weatherup, Jimmy
Weaver, Tina
Webb, Chris
Webb, Derek (‘Silver Shadow’)
Wells, Holly (Soham murders)
Wessex, Sophie, Countess of
Wheatcroft, Patience
Whelan, Charlie
Whitlam, Gough
Whittamore, Steve: runs blagging network; raided by ICO; commissioned by NoW journalists; used by other papers; investigated in Operation Glade; and Coulson
Whittingdale, John
Wight, Doug
WikiLeaks
Wilkes, Giles
William, Prince
‘Williams, Glenn’ see Mulcaire, Glenn
‘Williams, Paul’, see Mulcaire, Glenn
Williams, DCS Phil
Williams, Robbie
Williams, Rowan, Archbishop of Canterbury
Williams & Connolly (law firm)
Wimbledon, AFC (‘the Dons’)
Winton, Phil
Wintour, Anna
Wireless Telegraphy Act
Witham, Essex
Witherow, John
Withers, Ian
Witness Protection Programme
Wolff, Michael; The Man Who Owns the News
Woodward, Bob
Wright, Peter
Yates, John: demolishes author’s Guardian story (2009); actions queried by author at select committee inquiry; and Rebekah Brooks; having secret affair; gives evidence to media select committee; obstructive in meeting with author; at meeting with Rusbridger; denies concealing evidence; reopens police investigation; and Operation Weeting; demands Guardian withdraw accusation that he misled Parliament; clashes with DPP; continues to mislead select committee; promotion; his ‘operational shortcomings’; targeted by Rees; apologises for mistakes; ridiculed at select committee; connections with Wallis discovered; resignation; and Leveson Inquiry; and Myler
Yeates, Joanna
‘York’ (reporter)
‘Yorkshire Ripper’ see Sutcliffe, Peter
Young, Jimmy, see Active Investigation Services
Zola, Emile: Dreyfus: His Life and Letters
Zweifach, Gershon
Rebekah Brooks makes her connection with the then prime minister, Tony Blair, in 2004
Rupert Murdoch with his UK chief executive, Les Hinton, at the Fleet Street church St Brides in June 2005. Coulson and Brooks in the background
Party power: Wendi Murdoch and Rupert Murdoch at News Corp’s 2007 summer gathering with the then prime minister, Gordon Brown, and Sarah Brown
Three former editors of the News of the World: Piers Morgan, Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson
Right-hand man: David Cameron in London with Andy Coulson in April 2009, a year before Cameron became prime minister
Before it all went wrong: David Cameron and Rupert Murdoch at the wedding of Rebekah and Charlie Brooks, June 2009
The royal editor meets his fate: Clive Goodman on the way to being sentenced to prison, 26 January 2007
Formula One racing president Max Mosley after winning his privacy action against the News of the World, July 2008
The story that started it all – the Guardian splash Nick Davies’ first hacking article on 9 July 2009
Assistant Commissioner John Yates ‘establishes the facts’ after Nick Davies’ first hacking story, 9 July 2009
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers explains Operation Weeting to the home affairs select committee, July 2011
The notorious ‘email for Neville’, as redacted by Nick Davies’ children
The contract which Greg Miskiw gave Glenn Mulcaire in his false name, Paul Williams
Nick Davies hands over paperwork to the House of Commons select committee for culture, media and sport, July 2009
Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian
The end of the World, 10 July 2011. The final edition of the paper that hacked for stories
Actor and hacking victim Hugh Grant on his way to give evidence at the Leveson Inquiry, November 2011
Actress Sienna Miller arrives at the Leveson Inquiry with her legal team to talk about her life as a tabloid target
Professional Footballers Association chief executive Gordon Taylor – hacked
England footballer David Beckham – hacked
Celebrity PR agent Max Clifford sold scandal to Fleet Street and was then destroyed by scandal. Shown here on his way to the trial, which ended in May 2014. He was given an eight-year jail sentence for sex crimes
Trial by media. Andy Coulson on the receiving end of press photographers as he walks into the Old Bailey, November 2013
Stuart Kuttner, veteran managing editor of the News of the World, on his way to court
The man who ran the ‘dark arts’ at the News of the World – assistant editor Greg Miskiw
Award-winning chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck, on the wrong side of the law
James ‘Whispering Jimmy’ Weatherup, former news editor of the News of the World
Labour MP Tom Watson, who took on the News of the World. The paper put a private investigator on his tail
The hacker: Glenn Mulcaire outside court with a TV crew on his heels
Out of court: Rebekah and Charlie Brooks leave the Old Bailey after the jury acquitted them on all charges
A guilty man: Andy Coulson leaves the Old Bailey after being convicted of phone hacking, June 2014
List of Illustrations
1) Rebekah Brooks and Tony Blair, 2004 © PA Images
2) Rupert Murdoch and Les Hinton, 2005 © Graeme Robertson/Getty Images
3) News Corp’s 2007 summer gathering © Tom Stoddart/Getty Images
4) Piers Morgan, Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, 2007 © Richard Young/REX
5) David Cameron and Andy Coulson, 2009 © Splash News/Corbis
6) David Cameron and Rupert Murdoch, 2009 © Julian Andrews
7) Clive Goodman, 2007 © Rukhsana Hamid/Bloomberg via Getty Images
8) Max Mosley, 2008 © Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
9) Guardian front page, 9 July 2009 © Guardian News & Media Ltd 2009
10) John Yates, 2009 © Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
11) Sue Akers, 2011 © PA Images (image taken from court footage)
12) Email for Neville, 2005
13) Glenn Mulcaire’s contract, 2005
14) Nick Davies, 2009 © PA Images (image taken from court footage)
15) Alan Rusbridger, 2013 © Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for Guardian News and Media
16) News of the World final edition, 10 July 2011 © Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images
17) Hugh Grant, 2011
© Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
18) Sienna Miller, 2011 © John Phillips/UK Press via Getty Images
19) Gordon Taylor, 2014 © Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images
20) David Beckham, 2013 © Julian Parker/UK Press via Getty Images
21) Max Clifford, 2014 © Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
22) Andy Coulson, 2013 © Oli Scarff/Getty Images
23) Stuart Kuttner, 2013 © Oli Scarff/Getty Images
24) Greg Miskiw, 2013 © Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
25) Neville Thurlbeck, 2012 © Oli Scarff/Getty Images
26) James Weatherup, 2012 © Andrew Cowie/AFP/Getty Images
27) Tom Watson, 2011 © Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
28) Glenn Mulcaire, 2012 © Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
29) Rebekah and Charlie Brooks, 2014 © John Phillips/Getty Images
30) Andy Coulson, 2014 © Ben A. Pruchnie/Getty Images
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