News media phone hacking scandal evidence seized from Mulcaire back in August 2006. By mid-year, five people were arrested, including senior journalists from "News of the World". In June 2011, the long-ignored issue of computer hacking was addressed by the launching of . Having failed thus far to put the phone hacking issue to rest, News International's law firm, Hickman & Rose, now hired former Director of Public Prosecutions Ken Macdonald to review the emails that News International executives had used as the basis of their claim that no one at "News of the World" but Clive Goodman had been involved in phone hacking. Macdonald
2009–2011 News of the World phone hacking scandal investigations accounts. The "News of the World" denied "The Guardian"'s claims and its parent company, News Corporation, implored its competitor newspaper to share any evidence it had with police. Prescott in particular was outraged at the fact that the police did not inform him of the phone tapping, but Assistant Commissioner John Yates stated that there was no actual evidence that Prescott's phone had been tapped. Contrary to claims made by "News of the World" in 2007, "The Guardian" in July 2009 claimed that phone hacking activities were known to a range of staff at the tabloid including its then editor