NEWS International is facing the prospect of a deeply damaging court case over claims that its reporters harassed and hacked the phones of a police officer investigating the role of one of the News of the World's hired private investigators in a murder case.
Lawyers for former Scotland Yard detective Dave Cook, right, said he would be suing publishers of the News of the World in what may be only the first law suit against the group following last week's revelations.
The alleged harassment took place when Mr Cook was investigating the 1987 murder of Daniel Morgan, a private investigator found killed outside a south London pub.
The man subsequently accused was Mr Morgan's business partner, Jonathan Rees, who is known to have worked for the News of the World as an investigator, trawling for information from corrupt police officers and bank clerks. Both Mr Cook and his wife, Jacqui Hames, are taking forward the case, a lawyer said yesterday
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