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
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