2009–2011 News of the World phone hacking scandal investigations 2009–2011 News of the World phone hacking scandal investigations The "News of the World" phone hacking scandal investigations followed the revelations in 2005 of voicemail interception on behalf of "News of the World". Despite wider evidence of wrongdoing, the "News of the World" royal phone hacking scandal appeared resolved with the 2007 conviction of the "News of the World" royal editor Clive Goodman and the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, and the resignation of editor Andy Coulson. However, a series of civil legal cases and investigations by newspapers, parliament and the police ultimately saw evidence of "industrial scale" phone hacking, leading
News International phone hacking scandal interview with Andrew Neil on the BBC programme "The Daily Politics", that she had been lied to by the "News of the World" over phone hacking. Buscombe said that she did not know the extent of the scandal when she joined the PCC in 2009, but stated that she had been "misled by the News of the World" after she had previously concluded just the opposite. Buscome further admitted that her statement put out in 2009, when the PCC had reviewed the 2007 evidence, that "Having reviewed all the information available, we concluded that we were not materially misled;" was