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 people to warn them that they might have been victims of phone hacking. The Metropolitan Police announced on 26 January 2011, that it would begin a new and fresh investigation into the phone hacking affair, following the receipt of "significant new information" regarding the conduct of "News of the World" employees. Operation Weeting would take place alongside the previously announced review of phone hacking evidence by the Crown Prosecution Service. In December 2009, a parliamentary question was tabled about the possible tapping of minister Tessa Jowell's phone. Tom Watson, the Labour MP for West Bromwich East, played a key role