The story the Met Officers want to suppress

What Yates and Hayman threatened the Commons Committee against repeating.

Not reported in British newspapers for fear of litigation, this is a leader from the NY Times, freely available for anyone with internet, the links are here.

Amplify’d from www.nytimes.com

British Tabloid Sought Phone Data of Investigators

LONDON — Shortly after Scotland Yard began its initial criminal inquiry of phone hacking by The News of the World in 2006, five senior police investigators discovered that their own cellphone messages had been targeted by the tabloid and had most likely been listened to.

Those damaging allegations, about two of the senior officers’ private lives, involved charges that one had padded his expense reports and was involved in extramarital affairs and that the other used frequent flier miles accrued on the job for personal vacations.

The lead police investigator on the phone-hacking case, Andy Hayman, left the Metropolitan Police in December 2007 after questions were raised in the news media about business expenses he had filed and the nature of his relationship with a woman who worked for the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

At the time, Channel 4 News reported details of 400 text messages and phone calls that Mr. Hayman had sent to her.

John Yates, the assistant commissioner who has become a lightning rod for the police’s handling of the phone-hacking case, had reportedly used frequent flier miles earned in the line of duty to pay for flights for his relatives.

The outlets that reported these allegations have not been implicated in the hacking. Read more at www.nytimes.com

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