Metropolitan Police role in the news media phone hacking scandal Prosecutions Ken Macdonald to review the emails newspaper 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 immediately concluded there was evidence of criminal activity, including payments to serving police officers, leading the Met to open an investigation focused on bribery and corruption within its ranks. (See discussion of Operation Elveden, below.) On 4 July 2011, "The Guardian" published an article authored by Nick Davies and Amelia Hill titled "Missing Milly Dowler's voicemail was hacked by News of the World." This article
2009–2011 News of the World phone hacking scandal investigations to re-examine the allegations regarding the "News of the World", saying that it would consider new information that it had received. In January 2011, following evidence emerging from the civil case by Sienna Miller, the Crown Prosecution Service announced a review of the evidence collected during the Metropolitan Police's original investigation into phone hacking at the "News of the World". The director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer QC, said that the decision was motivated in part by developments in the civil courts. In April 2011 the Metropolitan Police admitted that in the previous four years it had only contacted 36