Phone-hacking trial: will Fleet Street’s tabloid culture be brought to heel, or let off the leash?
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Subject: Phone-hacking trial: will Fleet Street’s tabloid culture be brought to heel, or let off the leash? Sat Jun 14, 2014 12:58 am
There was no doubt that phone hacking went on at News of the World, Judge John Saunders told the jury early in his long summing-up in the epic phone hacking trial.
Case closed? Hardly.
The so-called media trial of the century has been a legal marathon, its eight months making it one of Britain's longest-ever criminal trials, stretching well past the original estimated finish date of Easter.