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LONDON — Records of illicit intercepts of phone messages presented to a judge’s inquiry on Monday appear to show that the practice was widespread.
Robert Jay, a lawyer for the inquiry, presented extensive records of phone hacking not just at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World but also at another Murdoch-owned tabloid, The Sun, and at a rival paper, The Daily Mirror, owned by Trinity Mirror.
Jay said that notes kept by Glenn Mulcaire, a private investigator jailed in 2007 for hacking into voice-mail accounts, showed Mulcaire appeared to have been asked on 2,266 occasions to tap into the accounts, involving a total of 5,975 targets, according to the Press Association, a British news agency.
