Hugh Grant: 'The phone-hacking scandal has only just scratched surface'

[cal04]

The actor tells Oliver Wright there's worse to come on politicians, police and the press
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/hugh-grant-the-phonehacking-scandal-has-only-just-scratched-surface-2365628.html

Corrupt policemen tipped off journalists about celebrity victims of crime before other officers had time to respond to their calls for assistance, the actor Hugh Grant claimed yesterday.

In an escalation of the allegations facing the police Mr Grant told The Independent he had personal experience of reporting crimes and discovering the first person who turned up on his doorstep was a tabloid journalist.

Mr Grant suggested he would be raising the issue when he is called to give evidence before Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry into phone hacking.

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Mr Grant also suggested there was more to be revealed about the relationship between senior politicians and the Murdoch press. He said: "The more that comes out about all this the more we will learn about the true nature of the Prime Minister's relationship with the Murdoch organisation. What I hear on the Cotswold grapevine is that the relationship was sinisterly cosy to a deeply unhealthy and unattractive degree.

[trueblue2007]

1. hope RUPERTgoes to jail

[lonestarnot]

2. Hey Ruppert, how much money do you have?

[RZM]

3. It's like he's saying they've only eaten the top layer of a stack of 'pancakes.'

Couldn't resist ;)

He's right though. This probably does go a lot deeper.

[anamandujano]

4. I get a kick out of Hugh. :)

Also a Rec. :)

[Arctic Dave]

5. Sounds like a modern day "LA Confidential". Nt

[midnight]

6. I said this last summer... Wait till all the info. tumbles out about the blackmail

across the pond in America...

[jtrockville]

7. Scandal? What scandal? Who's been arrested? What assets were seized?

[Uncle Joe]

8. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, cal.

[lapislzi]

9. I think Hugh Grant should be Prime Minister

He was awfully good at it in "Love, Actually."