Bob Crow first union leader to claim phone-hacking
By Ian Dunt
Bob Crow has become the first union leader to become embroiled in the phone-hacking scandal after his lawyers wrote to the police demanding information.
The controversial Rail and Maritime Transport (RMT) union leader said the union suspects that journalists gained access to his private information.
“RMT has had suspicions that journalists may have had access to private information about my movements and my union’s activities that date back to the year 2000 and we are now asking for the police, as part of their renewed investigation, to disclose to us any evidence or information that they may have uncovered in respect of the News of the World,” he said in a statement.
Lawyers acting for the union have written to the Metropolitan police asking them to look into suspicions that Mr Crow’s phone was hacked.
Mr Crow is just the latest high-profile public figure to demand answers in a row that refuses to die down.
There are now three separate investigations going on into the affair.
The Met has re-opened its investigation into phone-hacking, after “significant” new evidence was delivered to it by the News of the World itself.
The paper is conducting an internal investigation. Thirdly, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is re-examining the evidence – a process which began just weeks after it announced that there was little chance of a successful prosecution.
