Hack Attack (71 page)
Authors: Nick Davies
Out of court: Rebekah and Charlie Brooks leave the Old Bailey after the jury acquitted them on all charges
A guilty man: Andy Coulson leaves the Old Bailey after being convicted of phone hacking, June 2014
List of Illustrations
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Rebekah Brooks and Tony Blair, 2004 © PA Images
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Rupert Murdoch and Les Hinton, 2005 © Graeme Robertson/Getty Images
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News Corp’s 2007 summer gathering © Tom Stoddart/Getty Images
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Piers Morgan, Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, 2007 © Richard Young/REX
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David Cameron and Andy Coulson, 2009 © Splash News/Corbis
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David Cameron and Rupert Murdoch, 2009 © Julian Andrews
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Clive Goodman, 2007 © Rukhsana Hamid/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Max Mosley, 2008 © Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
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Guardian
front page, 9 July 2009 © Guardian News & Media Ltd 2009
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John Yates, 2009 © Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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Sue Akers, 2011 © PA Images (image taken from court footage)
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Glenn Mulcaire’s contract, 2005
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Nick Davies, 2009 © PA Images (image taken from court footage)
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Alan Rusbridger, 2013 © Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for Guardian News and Media
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News of the World
final edition, 10 July 2011 © Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images
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Hugh Grant, 2011 © Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
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Sienna Miller, 2011 © John Phillips/UK Press via Getty Images
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Gordon Taylor, 2014 © Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images
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David Beckham, 2013 © Julian Parker/UK Press via Getty Images
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Max Clifford, 2014 © Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
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Andy Coulson, 2013 © Oli Scarff/Getty Images
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Stuart Kuttner, 2013 © Oli Scarff/Getty Images
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Greg Miskiw, 2013 © Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
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Neville Thurlbeck, 2012 © Oli Scarff/Getty Images
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James Weatherup, 2012 © Andrew Cowie/AFP/Getty Images
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Tom Watson, 2011 © Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
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Glenn Mulcaire, 2012 © Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
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Rebekah and Charlie Brooks, 2014 © John Phillips/Getty Images
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Andy Coulson, 2014 © Ben A. Pruchnie/Getty Images
ALSO BY NICK DAVIES
Dark Heart: The Shocking Truth About Hidden Britain
White Lies: Rape, Murder, and Justice Texas Style
Murder on Ward Four: The Story of Bev Allitt and the Most Terrifying Crime Since the Moors Murders
The School Report: Why Britain’s Schools Are Failing
Flat Earth News: An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion, and Propaganda in the Global Media
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nick Davies is an award-winning investigative reporter and the author of five books, including the bestselling
Flat Earth News
. He has been named Reporter of the Year, Journalist of the Year, and Feature Writer of the Year at the British Press Awards, and has won eight additional prizes for his work uncovering the phone-hacking scandal. He is a special correspondent for
The Guardian
.
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Originally published in 2014 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain, as
Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch
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First American edition, 2014
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Davies, Nick, 1953 –
Hack attack: the inside story of how the truth caught up with Rupert Murdoch / Nick Davies. — First American edition.
pages cm
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-86547-881-7 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-86547-882-4 (e-book)
1. News of the World Phone Hacking Scandal, Great Britain, 2000–2012. 2. Newspapers—Corrupt practices—Great Britain. 3. Journalism—Corrupt practices—Great Britain. 4. Murdoch, Rupert, 1931– I. Title.
PN5130.N48D38 2014
072'.1—dc23
2014013578