Tom Watson, the Labour MP who helped expose phone hacking, has warned that the illegal interception of emails will be the next big scandal to emerge

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Mr Watson said he believed the illegal practices were restricted to the News International newspaper titles and not representative of the wider industry.
He also warned David Cameron, the Prime Minister, against rushing through legislation to deal with the crisis and said the current system of self-regulation by newspapers should remain.
Mr Watson has been pursuing News International for more than two years in a campaign which led to the disclosure that the mobile phone of Milly Dowler, the murdered schoolgirl, had been hacked. Today, he says he will continue to try to “force the truth” from News International and says that the scandal could move into a new area – email hacking – in the coming months.
“I’ve got to be careful what I say but Glenn Mulcaire was a blagger and a phone hacker,” he said.
“There are other private investigators who have different skills and when they come under scrutiny it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if it is discovered that there are people who know about how to plant Trojans on hard drives on computers to obtain email information, which in many senses is a far more serious crime.”

 

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