The shareholders are furious and now an English detective is suing the Murdoch paper for harassment. Expect a lot more of this in the near future.
A former Scotland Yard detective plans to sue publishers of the News of the World for harassment and hacking his phone while he was investigating a high-profile axe murder, their lawyer said on Tuesday.Meanwhile, News Corp has lost $7 billion in four trading days due to the scandal. It's an interesting turn of events that News Corp is now the story as opposed to the sleazy trash that they normally produce.
Mark Lewis, a lawyer for the policeman, Dave Cook, and for his wife Jacqui Hames, told Reuters he believed the planned suit against News Group Newspapers would be the first action against the now-defunct weekly for the physical trailing and electronic surveillance of a police officer by journalists working for it.
The case is particularly sensitive for the paper, since the man accused of the axe murder, in 1987, later worked for the News of the World as an investigator.
