As Leveson Inquiry gets underway, MPs put News International execs on the rack again

As the Leveson Inquiry into press standards and phone-hacking got underway – MPs again interrogated former News of the World executives about the affair.

Among the questions they demanded answers to were:

• Why was jailed News of the World royals reporter Clive Goodman given a £230,000 pay-off despite being jailed for committing a criminal offence?
• How much did James Murdoch know about Gordon Taylor’s £1m phone-hack legal payout and the now infamous ‘For Neville’ email transcript?
• And why was a story apparently based on Milly Dowler’s hacked mobile phone messages drastically changed between editions in April 2002?

Click on the links below for Press Gazette’s latest reports about the phone-hacking affair.

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