Phone-hacking victims demand review of CPS decision
Phone-hacking victims intend to demand the review of the decision by British prosecutors to halt pursuing criminal investigation into the country’s tabloid news media.
According to the Guardian, lawyers representing the victims who received payouts from the News of the World or the Sunday Mirror or People said they plan to exercise the victims’ formal right to review the controversial decision.
“Subject to clients’ instructions, we would want to have a review of the decision-making process. It’s available, it’s quite right and proper process to go through and we would want it reviewed. No doubt a number of the other [law] firms would want to join on this,” said Gerald Shamash, the lawyer representing one of the phone-hacking victims.
British prosecutors have ceased the four-year inquiry into the phone-hacking scandal that engulfed the tabloid news media.
British authorities say there is insufficient evidence to file corporate charge against Rupert Murdoch's News UK.
“After a thorough analysis, we have decided there is insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of a conviction and therefore no further action will be taken in any of these cases…These decisions bring the C.P.S.’s involvement in current investigations into phone hacking to a close,” Alison Saunders, director of public prosecutions, said in a statement.
Not deep enough
Meanwhile, a London-based political commentator has described the decision as “wrong”, saying the four-year investigation has not been “deep enough.”
“The investigation has not been deep enough… We really don’t know what happened. How many people were spied on? How many phones were hacked? How much information these detectives, journalists, reporters, editors have in relation with the people they spied on…,” Javuer Farje told Press TV’s UK Desk on Saturday.
Tabloid newspapers have already acknowledged hacking into phones to find stories. The scandal caused uproar when it became public in 2011.
News UK says it has already taken steps to pay compensation to those affected. It has also vowed to make reforms in the business.
However, critics argue that the payouts fail to repair the damage already made to the victims and give no guarantee to prevent similar scandals in the future.
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