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James Murdoch misled MPs, say former NoW editor and lawyer
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| Contributor | New Jerusalem |
| Last Edited | New Jerusalem Jul 21, 2011 03:54pm |
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| Category | Scandal |
| Author | The Guardian |
| Media | Newspaper - Guardian |
| News Date | Thursday, July 21, 2011 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | James Murdoch has been accused of misleading the parliamentary select committee this week in relation to phone hacking, igniting yet another fire for the embattled News International boss to extinguish.
In a highly damaging broadside, two former News of the World senior executives claimed the evidence Murdoch gave to the committee on Tuesday in relation to an out-of-court settlement to Gordon Taylor, chief executive of the Professional Footballers Association, was "mistaken".
The statement came as something of a bombshell to the culture, sport and media select committee, which immediately announced it would be asking Murdoch to explain the contradiction.
Colin Myler, editor of the paper until it was shut down two weeks ago, and Tom Crone, the paper's former head of legal affairs, said they had expressly told Murdoch of an email that would have blown a hole in its defence that only one "rogue reporter" was involved in the phone-hacking scandal.
This contradicts what Murdoch told the committee when questioned on Tuesday.
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