Murdoch’s son to face further questioning

BRITISH politicians, struggling in their bid to find out who knew what about phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, will recall son James for further questioning after employees contradicted his claims of innocence.

James Murdoch, chairman of News Corp’s British newspaper arm, spent almost three hours in front of a parliamentary committee with his father in July, answering questions over what they had done to unravel the scandal at the Sunday tabloid.

But James’s testimony, and his insistence that he did not know the problem stretched beyond “one rogue reporter” until earlier this year, has since been undermined by two senior employees who say they made him aware of a wider problem in 2008.