91 victims and rising: Met police admits scale of phone hacking

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91 victims and rising: Met police admits scale of phone hacking

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Vikram Dodd and Dan Sabbagh

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/15/phone-hacking-91-victims-court

Scotland Yard has accepted for the first time the extent of the phone-hacking scandal when it told a court the number of potential victims whose voicemails were targeted by the News of the World is likely to be "substantially" more than 91.

A high court hearing to timetable and organise the growing civil claims for damages against Rupert Murdoch's News International heard that the new police investigation believed the scale of potential victims was much higher than leading officers had previously said.

Previously the Metropolitan police said they had found a total of 91 pin numbers – necessary to access a mobile phone's voicemail – in the possession of the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.