Metropolitan Police role in the news media phone hacking scandal Times" deputy editor Raoul Simons. On 22 September 2011, "The Independent" published an article authored by James Cusick and Cahal Milmo reporting that, within weeks of the arrests of Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire in August 2006, "a senior police officer" advised Rebekah Brooks there was substantial "circumstantial evidence" in the documents seized from Mulcaire that "News of the World" journalists in addition to Goodman were implicated in phone hacking. It also reported that in early autumn 2006, Tom Crone, legal manager for News International, contacted several other executives, including then News of the World editor Andy Coulson, informing them
2009–2011 News of the World phone hacking scandal investigations warning that the Metropolitan Police would "deeply resent" an inquiry. Several days later the paper revealed comments by former "News of the World" journalist Paul McMullan on how widespread phone hacking had been under Andy Coulson; McMullan was one of six former "News of the World" journalists "who have independently told the Guardian that Coulson ... knew that his reporters were engaging in unlawful acts.". In September 2010, "The New York Times" published the results of an investigation it had begun in March which revealed further details about the extent of the "News of the World"'s phone hacking, and about