Secret listening devices inside people’s cars and homes. The commissioning of investigators to listen in on live phone calls. Corrupt payments to police officers. Illicit acquisition of personal medical and financial documents.
When the claims first appeared in 2022, they read more like the modus operandi of an organised crime gang than a newspaper publisher. Yet lawyers for a group of claimants taking the publisher of the Daily Mail to court alleged that they were just the “tip of the iceberg”.
