Police to Probe News of World Phone-Hacking Evidence

London’s Metropolitan Police will examine new evidence of phone-hacking by journalists at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World newspaper detailed in a report in the New York Times.

Assistant Commissioner John Yates said today officers will work with the Crown Prosecution Service to review the evidence. They include a statement by former reporter Sean Hoare that the newspaper’s former editor, Andy Coulson, now Prime Minister David Cameron’s communications chief, asked him to tap phones. Coulson has said he didn’t know hacking was taking place.