IT firm deleted NOTW emails

AN IT firm has told MPs it was aware of nine occasions when News International asked for emails to be deleted over the past 15 months, but said it noticed nothing un-toward about the requests.

India-based HCL Techno-logies was responding to questions from the Home Affairs Committee.

HCL said there were nine instances where the publisher requested the deletion of emails between April 2010 and July this year, but stressed that these kinds of discussions were “not at all unusual or untoward”.