28 Members of Rupert Murdoch's Staff Linked to Phone Hacking Scandal

Guardian UK - The full scale of phone hacking at News International, Britain's largest and most powerful newspaper group, finally began to emerge on Monday when the Leveson inquiry into press standards heard that 28 of the company's staff are named in notes seized from a private investigator who specialised in the practice.

On a dramatic opening day at the high court in London, Robert Jay QC, counsel for the inquiry, said evidence held by the Metropolitan police for five years showed "at least 27 other NI employees", in addition to the former News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman, appear in notes taken by Glenn Mulcaire.  Read more.