Phone hacking scandal

By EmmaLikesCurry

  • Heather Mills argument with her then partner

    Woke up- all her voicemails had been listened to.
    Call from Neil Wallis (The People)- story about the argument, knew she had been hacked.

  • Prince Harry dating Chelsy

    Payments from The Sun to a south african PI, Chelsy lived in cape town

  • Claire and mother's phone hacked

    Within hours of Claire' murder, both phones had been hacked by The news of the world newspaper.

  • The Sun find out Sienna is pregnant

    They found out her medical records, confirming she was pregnant. They didn't run the story.

  • Sienna pregnancy in American paper The Star and then in The Sun

    Didn't originally appear in The Sun but then appeared in The Star which meant The Sun could now comment on it as it had appeared in a paper abroad

  • John Tulloch 7/7 survivor phone hacked. News of the world

  • The Sun payed £250 for 'Sienna phone inquiries'

    Sienna Millers^

  • News of The World journalist & private investigator arrested

    Arrested listening to the voicemails of members of the royal household.

  • Mike Oaten sex scandal- news of the world, he resigned

    he hired a 23 year old male escort between 2004-2005

  • Simon Hughes story- The Sun hit back with a big story

    The Sun saw the Mike Oaten story from News of The World and hit back with this story. Hacked into Hughes' phone and saw calls to a gay hotline. Only couldve obtained this illegally.

  • Email between Greg Miskiw and The Sun

  • Glenn Mulcaire (PI) hacked others

    Revealed he had hacked other people's phones including murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler.

  • Leveson Inquiry

    Late 2011, Government launched this into culture, practice & ethics of the press

  • Trinity Mirror denied phone hacking

  • 41 people arrested, 9 convicted

    Others who weren't convicted, like Rebekah Brooks, were cleared of all charges

  • News of The World close

    After Rupert Murdoch appearing before parliament, News of the World closed down.
    Due to reveal of Glenn Mulcaire hacking the murdered schoolgirls phone

  • Dan Evans taught to hack at The Sunday Mirror

    Arrested for hacking at The News of The World, but revealed he had learnt how to from his time at The Sunday Mirror

  • Mirror group admitted to hacking phones

  • 8 people took the mirror to civil court

    Including Shobna Gulati- actress, her love life was documented in papers due to phone hacking

  • Heather Mills claim against News of the World and The Sun

    Part- email exchange between Greg Miskiw and The Sun from 29 may 2006

  • Hughes launched first claim against The Sun

  • Sienna Millers launched a claim against The Sun

    She was paid an undisclosed fee to settle her claim before it went to trial

  • Prince Harry began a lawsuit against 3 newspapers

    Against The Sun, the now defunct News of the world and The Daily Mirror. From mid 90s -2010

  • News Group Newspapers asked the court to strike out two high profile cases

    Prince Harry and Hugh Grant
    NGN argues the alleged unlawful activity happened too long ago

  • 200 new claims against The Sun

    Victims of crime and their relatives involved in this.

  • News Group Newspapers offer fee

    Without admitting liability, News Group Newspapers agreed to pay Tricia Bernal an undisclosed sum to settle her claim against The Sun before it came to trial

  • Prince Harry at the high-court

    Legal action against the publisher of The Daily Mail

  • Baroness Doreen Lawrence suing The Daily Mail

    Suing for unlawful gathering of information