UK police special enquiry team to examine role of Washington Post chief in email deletions

Scotland Yard has told Gordon Brown that its unit responsible for high-profile cases is reviewing a complaint he had submitted about Will Lewis. Composite: Guardian Design/PA/AP

A British police special enquiry team is examining allegations that Will Lewis, now the chief executive of the Washington Post, presided over the deliberate destruction of emails at Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper business when he worked for the company 13 years ago.

The Met has told the former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown that its standing unit responsible for high-profile cases is reviewing a complaint he had submitted about Lewis after fresh disclosures emerged during civil actions relating to the phone-hacking scandal.