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 transcripts of the messages. With the eventual settlement, however, the information was not made public. A report aired on Channel 4's "Dispatches" in October included remarks made by an unnamed source said to have been a former senior journalist at the "News of the World" who had worked alongside Coulson. The source alleged that Coulson had personally listened to messages obtained through phone hacking. In December 2010, Coulson – while under oath as a witness in "HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan" – denied any knowledge of phone hacking at the "News of the World" or that he knew the