More than 800 ‘likely victims’ of phone hacking

The police officer in charge of investigating illegal behaviour at News Corp’s now-defunct News of the World tabloid said her team had identified 829 “likely victims” of phone hacking.

About 90 officers and staff are working on the phone- hacking probe, known as Operation Weeting, Metropolitan Police deputy assistant commissioner Sue Akers told an inquiry into media ethics in London.

She said she was expanding the number of personnel on an investigation into bribes to police, Operation Elveden, to 61, after it widened to include News Corp’s Sun newspaper.