News International phone hacking memos passed to police

Police have been handed internal News International memos from 2007 that appear to acknowledge that the practice of phone hacking was more widespread than previously thought and that police were paid for helping with stories.

The memos – which were written in the wake of the jailing of the News of the World’s former royal editor Clive Goodman and the newspaper’s £100,000-a-year private investigator Glenn Mulcaire — allegedly show that the pair were not the only News International employees implicated in phone hacking. The memos have now been passed to police investigating the matter — via redwolf.newsvine.com