Metropolitan Police role in the news media phone hacking scandal from Mulcaire's premises in August 2006 was the "Transcript for Nevile" email. The names appearing on this document indicated that "News of the World" journalists in addition to Clive Goodman were involved in phone hacking. The Met acknowledged the existence of this document 1 November 2007 in response to inquiries related to the civil claim brought against "News of the World" by Gordon Taylor. The court ordered the Met to turn the document over to Taylor on 7 December 2007 and Farrer and Co, which then represented News Group Newspapers, received a copy by 2 April 2008. When the chairman
Metropolitan Police role in the news media phone hacking scandal claimed not to be aware of phone hacking. Among other things, the article alleged: On 15 December 2010, "The Guardian" published an article authored by Nick Davies disclosing that documents, seized from the home of private investigator Glenn Mulcaire by Metropolitan Police Service in 2006 and only recently made available to the public by court action, implied that "News of the World" editor Ian Edmondson specifically instructed Mulcaire to intercept voice messages of Sienna Miller, Jude Law, and several others. The documents also implied that Mulcaire was engaged by others at "News of the World", including chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck