Lawyers for a group of 45 individuals suing News Group Newspapers (NGN) have claimed that Rupert Murdoch was aware of phone hacking at the defunct News Of The World seven years before it closed. The group alleges that Murdoch and other senior company figures made 'dishonest' statements about the extent of phone hacking at the paper. A trial is scheduled for January next year.
Rupert Murdoch 'turned a blind eye' to allegations of phone hacking as publisher of the defunct News Of The World, but would have been aware of it seven years before the paper closed, the High Court has been told. Lawyers for a group of 45 individuals suing News Group News papers (NGN), including the Duke of Sussex, said that the media mogul and other senior company figures made 'dishonest' statements over the extent of phone hacking at the paper, which shut down in 2011.
Mr Murdoch was executive chairman of News Corp and director of NGN's parent company and News Corp's subsidiary, News International, now News UK, at the time the paper closed. His status meant he would have known about phones being hacked as early as 2004 and 'was aware of the nature and extent of NGN's wrongdoing' when allegations were first published by the Guardian in 2009, the group's barrister, David Sherborne, said in court documents. The group's legal team said they will also aim to show that, after the accusations were made, Mr Murdoch knew News Corp's public denial was false 'or at the very least turned a blind eye to its veracity and that of the allegations'. The 45 individuals allege that the News Of The World and The Sun, owned by NGN, unlawfully gathered information, including by using private investigators. A trial is set for January next yea
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