Phone hacking: The News of the World, the army's IRA mole and more questions for Rupert Murdoch

Phone hacking exclusive: The News of the World, the army's IRA mole and more questions for Rupert Murdoch - Crime - UK - The Independent

News International paid private detectives to unlawfully access the phone records of a leading IRA mole who lives under the protection of the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
Senior Scotland Yard officers are analysing an invoice originally seized from a private investigator by the Metropolitan Police in 2007. The document – which dates from the time of the discredited original phone-hacking investigation – bills News International £850 for "Scappaticci phone records".