Hack Attack (68 page)

Richards, Ed

Richmond upon Thames

Rinaldi, Dick

RIPA
see
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act

Ritchie, General Andrew

‘rocs’ (‘record of calls’)

Ross, John (‘Rossy’)

Rothermere, Claudia Harmsworth, Viscountess

Rothermere, Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount

Rowland, Tiny

Royal Bank of Scotland

Rudd, Kevin

Rusbridger, Alan; worries about Gordon Taylor story; and threatened smear by
Sunday Times
; pressured to acknowledge inaccuracy of story; gives evidence to select committee; threatened by Rebekah Brooks; and PCC report on Gordon Taylor story; ignores police denials; summoned to see senior minister; sends Nick Clegg detailed summary of story so far; writes leader on Murdoch papers’ refusal to report findings of select committee; approaches editors and TV executives; and Nicole Kidman; reveals that Cameron was warned about Coulson; checks security of own phone; and Yates’s demand that allegation that he misled Parliament be withdrawn; and Milly Dowler; amazed at closure of
NoW
; commissions security specialist; clashes with Caseby; and
Sunday Times
stories; questions Fedorcio

Salmond, Alex

Salter, Martin

‘Sand’ (phone-hacking reporter)

‘Sapphire’ (reporter)

‘Sarah’s Law’

Saunders, Mr Justice John

Scargill, Arthur

Scarlett, Sir John

Schillings (law firm)

Scott, James

Seldon, Anthony, and Lodge, Guy:
Brown at

select committees
see
House of Commons

Serious Crime Directorate

Shamash, Gerald

Shaw, Tracy

Shear, Graham

Shearer, Alan

Sherborne, David

Sheridan, Tommy

Shine (TV company)

Shipman, Chris

Shipman, Dr Harold

Shoesmith, Sharon

Short, Clare

‘Silver Shadow’
see
Webb, Derek

Silverleaf, Michael, QC

Simons, Raoul (‘Ryan’/’Ryall’)

Simpsons, The

Sky News

Sky TV

Smith, Adam

Smith, Philip Campbell

Snow, Jon

Society of Editors

Soham murders;
see
Chapman, Jessica; Wells, Holly

Soho House club, London

Southern Investigations

Spice Girls

Star TV network

Starmer, Keir (DPP)

Starr, Freddie

Stenson, Jules

Stephens, Jonathan

Stephenson, Sir Paul

Stevens, Sir John

Stiglitz, Joseph

Strathclyde police

Straw, Jack

Strong, Arthur

Sugar, Alan (Lord)

Sullivan, Brendan

Sun
; under Kelvin MacKenzie; use of phone hacking; offers reward for information about Milly Dowler; and Coulson; and Mohan; and Neil Wallis; and Tony Blair; and Gordon Brown; under Rebekah Brooks; ‘monstering’ of victims; sponsors police bravery awards ceremony; and PCC report; Rupert Murdoch’s interest in; reporting biased against BBC; attacks Ofcom members; Mohan as news editor; reports Cameron’s support for prison ships; hires Blunkett as columnist; targets Tom Watson; and select committee report (2010); and
NoW
closure; smears author; denies hacking into Gordon Brown’s medical records; fined for contempt of court over Jefferies case; vilifies Cameron; declares war on
Guardian
; offers reward for information about Milly Dowler; reviewed by Murdoch’s MSC

Sun on Sunday

Sunday Mirror

Sunday People

Sunday Telegraph

Sunday Times
; its long history of illegal activities; infiltrated by Rebekah Brooks; campaigns against BBC; and targeting of Gordon Brown; smear threat against Rusbridger; discloses that Sir Ian Blair has been hacking victim; lunch gatecrashed by Brooks; further smears against
Guardian
; reports Sir Paul Stephenson’s connections with Wallis and Charlie Brooks; attacks
Guardian
over Dowler story

Surtees, DCI Keith

Sutcliffe, Carl

Sutcliffe, Peter (‘Yorkshire Ripper’)

Tarrant, Chris

Tatler

Taylor, Gordon: targeted by Miskiw and Mulcaire; and Edmondson; and Thurlbeck; speaks to lawyer; transcripts of his voicemail messages emailed to Thurlbeck (2005); told by police his voicemail has been hacked; sues
NoW
; offered ‘big money’ to settle;
Guardian
story on (2009); and evidence given to select committee (2009); PCC report on
Guardian
story; details of
NoW
settlement ordered to be disclosed; James Murdoch denies all knowledge of

Taylor Hampton (law firm)

Telegraph
(Australia)

Telegraph Media Group

Thatcher, Margaret

Thatcher, Mark

38 Degrees (online campaigning organisation)

Thomas, Mark

Thompson, Mark

Thomson, Mark; questions police about hacking records; prepares his case; introduced to Lewis and Harris by author; has ‘dynamite case’ (Kelly Hoppen); takes on Heather Mills, and Sienna Miller; names Edmondson in letter to News International; suspects he’s being spied on; gets preservation order for News International emails

Thomson, Robert

Thomson Reuters

Thurlbeck, Neville; and Milly Dowler; sent transcript of messages from Taylor’s voicemail; and Mulcaire; reports on Kylie Minogue’s medical care; ‘Transcript for Neville’ (2005); fails to cover story of Taylor/Armstrong affair; and Goodman’s story about Prince Harry; email not passed on by police in 2006; author hands redacted email to select committee (2009); accuses Edmondson of involvement in phone-hacking; arrested; accused by Coulson of hacking Blunkett’s phone; jailed

Time Warner

Times, The
; uses blagging specialist; Andy Hayman becomes regular columnist; and
Guardian
story; critical of Ofcom executives’ high salaries; Hayman’s column; reports on
Guardian
’s evidence to select committee; and PCC report (2009); on select committee members; suspends Raoul Simons; editor meets Cameron; reporter hired as media adviser by Miliband; smears BBC; and possible hacking of Mark Thomson’s phone; denounces
NoW
for hacking Dowler phone; and News International’s tactics

T-mobile

Today
(newspaper)

Tomlinson, Hugh, QC

Toulmin, Tim

tracing

Twentieth Century Fox

Twickenham

UK Independence Party

Vaizey, Ed

Valassis (company)

Van Natta, Don

Vanity Fair
(magazine)

VAT inspectors

Vaz, Keith

Venables, Jon

Virgin Media

Vodafone

Vogue
magazine

Vos, Mr Justice (Geoffrey)

Wade, Rebekah
see
Brooks, Rebekah

Wall Street Journal

Wallis, Amy

Wallis, Neil; arrested but not charged; relations with police; and Mulcaire; hired by Scotland Yard as media consultant; arrested

Washington Post

Watson, Alan

Watson, Margaret

Watson, Tom: hounded by Murdoch papers over ‘curry-house plot’; and Rebekah Brooks; targeted by
Sun
; on media select committee (2009); and committee report; forms alliance with Charlotte Harris; calls for inquiry into relationship between police and
NoW
; makes powerful speech in House of Commons hacking debate; and BSkyB bid; urges DPP to reply to author; protests about Coulson; and hacking of Brown’s phone; sends summary of Rees’s crimes to Akers; brings up need for new inquiry in PMQs; given conditional offer of help from News Corp executive; on 2011 select committee

Weatherup, Jimmy

Weaver, Tina

Webb, Chris

Webb, Derek (‘Silver Shadow’)

Wells, Holly (Soham murders)

Wessex, Sophie, Countess of

Wheatcroft, Patience

Whelan, Charlie

Whitlam, Gough

Whittamore, Steve: runs blagging network; raided by ICO; commissioned by
NoW
journalists; used by other papers; investigated in Operation Glade; and Coulson

Whittingdale, John

Wight, Doug

WikiLeaks

Wilkes, Giles

William, Prince

‘Williams, Glenn’
see
Mulcaire, Glenn

‘Williams, Paul’,
see
Mulcaire, Glenn

Williams, DCS Phil

Williams, Robbie

Williams, Rowan, Archbishop of Canterbury

Williams & Connolly (law firm)

Wimbledon, AFC (‘the Dons’)

Winton, Phil

Wintour, Anna

Wireless Telegraphy Act

Witham, Essex

Witherow, John

Withers, Ian

Witness Protection Programme

Wolff, Michael;
The Man Who Owns the News

Woodward, Bob

Wright, Peter

Yates, John: demolishes author’s
Guardian
story (2009); actions queried by author at select committee inquiry; and Rebekah Brooks; having secret affair; gives evidence to media select committee; obstructive in meeting with author; at meeting with Rusbridger; denies concealing evidence; reopens police investigation; and Operation Weeting; demands
Guardian
withdraw accusation that he misled Parliament; clashes with DPP; continues to mislead select committee; promotion; his ‘operational shortcomings’; targeted by Rees; apologises for mistakes; ridiculed at select committee; connections with Wallis discovered; resignation; and Leveson Inquiry; and Myler

Yeates, Joanna

‘York’ (reporter)

‘Yorkshire Ripper’
see
Sutcliffe, Peter

Young, Jimmy,
see
Active Investigation Services

Zola, Emile:
Dreyfus: His Life and Letters

Zweifach, Gershon

Rebekah Brooks makes her connection with the then prime minister, Tony Blair, in 2004

Rupert Murdoch with his UK chief executive, Les Hinton, at the Fleet Street church St Brides in June 2005. Coulson and Brooks in the background