Phone hacking: 45 messages from Prescott were intercepted, court hears

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"he private investigator at the centre of the phone-hacking affair intercepted 45 voicemail messages from the then deputy prime minister John Prescott and emailed them to the News of the World, the high court has heard.

Lord Prescott's lawyers told the court that he had been the victim of "an unfortunate history of misinformation" by the Metropolitan police, who had told him repeatedly that he was not a victim of hacking.

But the court heard that the investigator Glenn Mulcaire had targeted Prescott by listening to messages which he left on the phone of his chief of staff, Joan Hammell. Mulcaire had then sent a NoW executive an email containing 45 messages as well as instructions about how to continue accessing Hammell's phone."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/may/12/phone-hacking-messages-prescott

Most people seem to have a bit of a downer on Prezza, but this is unbelievable. The man was Deputy PM, for Christ's sake! If this was a foreign government doing this rather than a foreign owned company with an agenda it would be a reason for mass diplomatic expulsions, if not war.